Quotes about Envy

For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

I expect that in Heaven, the angels will sing Bach, and they'll envy us our understanding of Beethoven. The unfallen angels don't have to go through the first movements of the 9th symphony to get to the Ode to Joy. But we do.

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.

Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”