Selfish to seek salvation??

“It is often ignorantly and frivolously charged against Christian men that it is selfish in them to seek heaven and glory for their own souls; but no man who is truly seeking salvation will be moved by that accusation.  When men really begin to seek their salvation, and to turn their faces to the glory of heaven, then it is that all selfish and ignoble desires receive their death-blow.  It is not selfish, surely, for the diseased to seek healing, or the hungry food, or the prodigal his father’s house.  So far from this being a sign that the heart is selfish, there is no surer sign that it is being sanctified.”

Alexander Whyte, An Exposition on the Shorter Catechism (Fearn, 2004), page 138.