Envy Quote by John Chrysostom Download Open image ““As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].”” — John Chrysostom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envy Jealousy
“We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals "I'm available" to… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th'… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually he will… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Envy is not meant to cause hatred, but to inspire us to be more.” — Brandon Lee Godbee Copy Share Image
“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“How does envy destroy our safety? By spoiling any chance to be loved. When we envy, we resent those who have something to offer… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“But envy is negative and outer-directed, not driven from within, and so I knew that it wouldn’t carry us very far down the path… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft - magicians with a star, fishers with a fish. — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it.… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The Judge will pass sentence, not according to what any other person has said concerning you, but according to what you have yourself spoken.… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“For it cannot, it cannot be, that a man should enjoy the benefit of grace except he watch.” — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Do not say I use what is mine: you use what is alien to you; the indulgent, selfish use makes what is yours something… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
After the prophets, the false prophets; after the apostles, the false apostles; after Christ, anti-Christ. — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art of forming… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God's love toward us. — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all time. — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yes, Clay Matthews has a long, golden, Fabio-esque flowing mane that most women would chick-slap someone for. And yes, the shiny, beautiful, dark locks… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
