Quotes about Comparison

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.

Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

Why is it so important to highlight these comparisons? Because the Christian life is built upon the foundation of facing who you really are and trusting who Christ truly is. Everything you do will be shaped by the degree to which you act on the blessings that are yours in Christ.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

Schopenhauer had said it years ago: "Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, they feel important; but when we excel them, they—or at least some of them—will feel inferior and envious.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12