Quotes about Comparison

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are "closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.

I couldn't tell the difference between the books they were talking about and their lives, they were just that cool.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.

Holy, holy, holy", seems written on every page. To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so-called, such as the Koran, the Shasters, or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a mole hill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Koh-i-noor diamond with a bit of glass.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

I expect a perfection in me and a perfection in others that not even God Himself expects. If God is patient with the process, why can't I be?

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

We all desperately want something that we see the Lord giving to other women. We see Him blessing them in the very areas He's withholding from us. And while these other women may not be obnoxious like Peninnah in their reminders of their blessing and our lack, it's increasingly painful each time we see a reminder. We look at them, and we feel set aside.

comparison steals celebration. And a life void of celebration is a life empty.

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.