Quotes About Coveting

#1. Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments - the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.

Dennis Prager

#2. Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#3. We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

#4. It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Dan C. Quayle

#5. Our coveting exposes that we have set our hearts upon earthly gain. The more we seek our treasure outside of Christ, the more we falsely believe that God is lacking in His goodness to us. Essentially, our coveting accuses God of a failure to reign well over the events in our lives. Failing

Melissa B. Kruger

#6. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#7. When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.

William P. Smith

#8. When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Zane Grey

#9. Maybe the world would be a better place if everyone took time to thank God for things they have, instead of coveting everything they don't.

Rick Barry

#10. What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Thomas Harris

#11. Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#12. Because, he says, it hurts to think about things that you can't have or help. S'better not to think about it.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. You can be serious without a suit

Larry Page

#14. She would just ride around until her mind cleared from the fog of coveting her past life; not just her life in New York, but her life before her mother died.

Alex Morgan

#15. The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

L. Ron Hubbard

#16. No. No coveting the dragon. Dragons are bad. We

W.B. McKay

#17. The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Sun Tzu

#18. We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

#19. I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

Francesca Annis

#20. I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

Gene Simmons

#21. I'd always defined jealousy as coveting what someone else has.

Tammara Webber

#22. Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Camille Paglia

#23. I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

Molly Sims

#24. One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Ray Manzarek

#25. Let's agree that diamonds are bullshit and reject their role in the marriage process. Let's admit that as a society we got tricked for about century into coveting sparkling pieces of carbon, but it's time to end the nonsense.

Anonymous

#26. There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Lady Gregory