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Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't.
- Mark Driscoll
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
- Elton John
O how many follow them today, people full of envy and the gall of vengefulness who fashion I do not know what kind of idol of jealousy for themselves and lie about the severity of righteousness as they seek the most obstinate lie!
- Martin Luther
The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world. Jealous for its own religious views, the world in turn charges the Gospel with being a subversive and licentious doctrine, offensive to God and man, a doctrine to be persecuted as the worst plague on earth.
- Martin Luther
jealousy is the grave of affection
- Mary Baker Eddy
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- St. Augustine
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
- Anonymous
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
- Samuel Johnson
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
- Oscar Wilde
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
- Paul David Tripp
The world of envy no more mixes with the world of grace than oil does with water.
- Paul David Tripp