envy

Comparison

Useful in shopping for a good deal

Not so great with people

Comparing yourself to others

usually leads to feelings

of inferiority

or superiority

Be who God made you to be

and be glad for others in their gifts, abilities and blessings

Compare when you’re shopping

But don’t do it with people

Just

Love

people

– Susie Stewart

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

– Galatians 6:4,5 (MSG)

You are not to covet what your neighbor has or set your heart on getting his house, his wife, his male or female servants, his ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.

– Exodus 20:17 (VOICE)

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

– Proverbs 14:30 (NLT)

Photo by Susie Stewart

Love does not envy…

– 1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)

Envying someone else’s life doesn’t make your life better like actually enjoying your own does.

– Ann Voskamp

It is a very human trait in us to feel that another’s advancement is in some way a blow to ourselves. It is equally a human trait to feel that another’s downfall and disgrace in some way adds a bit of luster to our own crowns. Of course, nothing could be more utterly false.

-Clovis G. Chappell

In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a “but” of detraction.

-Owen Felltham

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God.

-Jerry Bridges

Whenever people are jealous or selfish, they cause trouble and do all sorts of cruel things.

– James 3:16 (CEV)

Photo by Susie Stewart