Quotes about Comparison
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
— John Calvin
Yet we flatter our strength unduly when we compare it even to a reed stick! For whatever vain men devise and babble concerning these matters is but smoke. Therefore Augustine with good reason often repeats the famous statement that free will is by its defenders more trampled down than strengthened.
— John Calvin
As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
— John Calvin
But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind.
— John Calvin
Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors.
— John Calvin
We are all so blinded and upset by self-love that everyone imagines he has a just right to exalt himself and to undervalue all others in comparison to self.
— John Calvin
As soon as there was two there was pride
— John Donne
As soon as there was two there was pride
— John Donne
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
— John Donne
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.
— John Calvin
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
— Mike Pence
Comparison is the thief of joy.
— Theodore Roosevelt