Quotes about Comparison

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.

But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come