Quotes about Comparison

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

Fair queen, at home there is none like thee, But over the mountains is Snow-white free, With seven little dwarfs, who are strange to see; A thousand times fairer than thou is she. Queen, thou art not the fairest now; Snow-white over the mountain's brow A thousand times fairer is than thou. Queen, thou art the fairest here, But not when Snow-white is near; Over the mountains still is she, Fairer a thousand times than thee.

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.

Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

Why is it so important to highlight these comparisons? Because the Christian life is built upon the foundation of facing who you really are and trusting who Christ truly is. Everything you do will be shaped by the degree to which you act on the blessings that are yours in Christ.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.