Amor próprio
O amor próprio saudável reconhece o valor que Deus nos deu. Fomos criados à imagem de Deus, maravilhosamente formados. Aceitar-se é honrar o Criador.
14 I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
17 How weighty also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand; were I to come to the end of them, I would still be with Thee.
3 When I behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast established;4 What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?5 Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
7 Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;8 That He may set him with princes, even with the princes of His people.
7 But the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.'