Quotes about Jealousy

Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.

Instead of being resentful that God is jealous, we should be thankful that He is like that. It shows He cares!

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

It was not just the prodigal in the far-off country who squandered the love of the father; the older brother lost out as well, though he was close to the father's love.

We have lost the shared meanings of pain, and so the shared meanings of victory become occasions for jealousy.

The person who forgives is always greater than the one who is jealous and angry.

We are not jealous of what anyone else has if we have the same thing. Fear comes when we are afraid we will be left out or have to do without what we want.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.