Is self love bad?

[josh987654321]

It’s because I have self love, but I also want to love others and others love me.

I believe you can’t have both. I believe self love doesn’t allow for the love of others as by definition it’s directed toward the self, it promises you much but actually delivers nothing.

However pure love (the love of Christ) does, as I believe pure love is recieved and given, it’s never derived from the self.

He who has God Finds he lacks nothing; God alone suffices. - St. Teresa of Avila

‘Pure love, Recieved from God Himself’ the soul no longer needs to derive it from anywhere but God himself, where he always has recourse to it and in abundance.

We love because He first loved us. - 1 John 4:19

‘Love shared with others, because we have first recieved it’

You received without paying, now give without being paid. - Matthew 10:8

Jesus to St. Faustina
"I am Love and Mercy itself. When a soul approaches Me with trust, I fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itself, but radiates them to other souls" (1074).

I think it’s important to have self in order to cultivate self and improve if you disregard certain religions which what I thought that only allows love for others.

I think it’s crucial to be loved (No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken. - Matthew 4:4). We need the love and mercy of God. I believe mankind cannot live without it.

Jesus to St. Faustina
“Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.” (Diary, p.300)
Jesus to Catalina:

The Great Crusade of Mercy - loveandmercy.org/Eng-CM-Reg.pdf

11) Mercy is love, My child. It is union with God and union with God is the certitude of victory and an everlasting abundance of virtues. Mercy is the unquestionable proof of love for Me.

Jesus to Catalina:

The Great Crusade of Mercy - loveandmercy.org/Eng-CM-Reg.pdf

**I want to talk to you about My Mercy; I want to teach you Mercy; I want you to preach My Mercy. But in order to speak of it, you need to feel love because a person who does not love, cannot know Mercy.

1. If you love, it is because I loved you first; just as I am Love. Whoever knows how to love remains in Me and I in him. My Father did not send Me as an offering for you to love Me, but because My Father is Love and I am one with My Father. Therefore, understand that nothing is sweeter than love, for it proceeds from the One who is the Creator of everything.
2. And so, if you want to be merciful to your fellow human being, first you have to love and be compassionate to that person and if you want to receive Mercy, you must let yourself be loved. Mercy is the chain that unites with love, for one cannot love without being merciful. Understand that My love is without measure, it does not feel burdensome, nor does it value effort, it is simply given. You, on the other hand, are weak in love and imperfect in virtue; you are in need of My strength and of My comfort.**

I believe love is a relationship, of giving and recieving, and thus self love sever’s this relationship and thus delivers no love at all.

Thus -

*“self-love is the most deceitful of all enemies.” *- St. Alphonsus

Also, if you get a chance to read through my public message wall here, I believe it may also help you.

I also believe that spiritual reading, such as the Diary of St Faustina, the Gospels etc are the key, because if we don’t know God then we won’t know, nor have recourse to, His love and mercy for us.

p.s. Also, when I say ‘God’ I mean more specifically Jesus, who we believe is God (the trinity, one with the father).

I hope I have helped, please feel free to reply/refute anything I have said.

God Bless

Thank you for reading
Josh

 

[phil_at_dayboro]

Like I said earlier, much comes down to one’s own interpretation on the meaning ,

 

[marymary1975]

I think it depends. Self love is important and self respect is a must (remember we are temple of the holy spirit and gid wants us to respect ourselves because our body is his temple) but it has to be a self love due to knowing that you are the child of God and God loves you. If god loves you why are you going to hate yourself? But at the same time we love ourselves we have to be humble. We love ourselves but we have to love Christ more than is and we have to understand that we are not better than anyone else and that we are imperfect human beings and we need to better ourselves everyday. If we love ourselves because chirst loves us and because we are his temple is good. But if we have a selfish love in which we think we are god that we don’t need god and we are better than others, then that is not good.

 

[abdulmasih]

OP, do not confuse self-love with self-respect. God calls us all to have self-respect, but NEVER self-love. If Jesus had the faintest trace of self-love, He wouldn’t suffer so much as he did for sinners.