Quotes about Jealousy

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude.

A ministry that doesn't have it simply follows the formula they used the year before and the year before that. People are bored, uninspired, and complacent. When a church doesn't have it, the staff is simply doing a job, drawing a paycheck, passing time. They're territorial. Jealous. Dissatisfied. Discontented. Even bitter.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

The death of contentment is comparison.

Jealousy is a tough thing to carry because it causes us to compare and compete. It silences us from celebrating and affirming. When we live in families that compare and compete, but can't celebrate and affirm, we live at war.

Malice drinks one half of its own poison.

Offended people produce much fruit, such as hurt, anger, outrage, jealousy, resentment, strife, bitterness, hatred, and envy. Some of the consequences of picking up an offense are insults, attacks, wounding, division, separation, broken relationships, betrayal, and backsliding.

An attitude that really works against people is the desire for equality that feeds petty jealousy. For

When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.