Sentence examples for thinking of ourselves from inspiring English sources

Almighty God, whose servant Chad, for the peace of the Church, relinquished cheerfully the honours that had been thrust upon him: Keep us, we pray, from thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to think, and ready at all times to step aside for others.

Chiefly, though, we were thinking of ourselves.

In this world it is easy to become selfish, greedy and thoughtless, only thinking of ourselves.

But that's because we aren't thinking of ourselves as vectors for disease.

Would we be in some sense entirely posthuman (though thinking of ourselves perhaps as descendants of humans)?

"It's been an important step to move from thinking of ourselves as a multicultural school to being an international school.

They had blown up a small detail of one of our pieces, which is something that we were thinking of doing ourselves.

Artificial non-thinking computers do seem in many ways more useful to us than synthetic thinking copies of ourselves would be because they do things we can't.

If society were to begin to think this way, we would be free of the slavery of thinking only of ourselves and achieve a new sense of freedom.

We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments.... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms.

As such, we have to be thinking not of ourselves and our lives, but rather about our children and grandchildren.