Life in solitude grows selfish

We grow best, as Christians, in our true places in social life. Solitariness is not good; in the broader as well as in the narrower sense — it is not good for man to be alone.

Every life needs solitude at times; we should all get into each of our busy days an hour of silence, when human presences shall be shut away by the veil that shuts us in alone with God. We need such hours . . .

for quiet thought and meditation,

for communion with Christ,

for introspection, for spiritual feeding,

for the drawing of blessing and holy influences down from Heaven to replenish the waste produced by earth's toil, struggle, and sorrow.

There is a time for being alone — but we should not seek to live always nor usually in this way. Life in solitude grows selfish .

The weeds of evil desire and unhealthy emotion, flourish in solitariness.

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