Top 34 Sin Of Envy Quotes
#1. That businesspeople buy low and sell high in a particularly alert and advantageous way does not make them bad unless all trading is bad, unless when you yourself shop prudently you are bad, unless any tall poppy needs to be cut down, unless we wish to run our ethical lives on the sin of envy.
Deirdre N. McCloskey
#2. Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil
#3. The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
Jerry Bridges
#4. When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil
#5. This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch.
Olivia Cunning
#6. If our thoughts are going to affect what we become, then it should certainly be a priority that we think right thoughts.
Joyce Meyer
#7. What I envy is not their skin but their insouciance. I envy the freedom to sin with only a little bit of consequence, to commit one selfish act and not have it mean the downfall of my entire people. Where indecency and mischief do not mean annihilation.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
#8. If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
Monica Furlong
#9. More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#10. Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Sydney Thompson Dobell
#11. The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
Gary Zukav
#12. Envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to ...
Michael Gruber
#13. To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.
Donald J. Boudreaux
#14. People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.
Jonathan Sadowski
#15. Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
Esther Smith
#17. A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#18. Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?
John Milton
#19. I was the Sumerian god of fertility. You know what that means, don't you? (Sin)
You have a lot of penis envy over the other fertility gods? Don't worry. I won't tell the other gods about your small penis problem. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan
#21. You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
Peter Kreeft
#23. Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.
Richard Of Chichester
#24. The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.
Plenary Councils Of Baltimore
#25. The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
[Isaiah 43:2]
Anonymous
#27. The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#28. Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
Hosea Ballou
#29. I was angry with you. (Callie)
For what? (Sin)
Sleeping on the floor again. What is it with you and the floor? Most women have to fear their husbands are in the bed of another. Me, 'tis the hearth I envy. (Callie)
Kinley MacGregor
#30. What good is envy? It's the one sin you can't have any fun at.
Charlie Munger
#31. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
Charlie Munger
#32. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
Robert C. Shannon
#33. It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
Isaiah Thomas
#34. As I watched them together, my earth found its axis and my stars found their sky.
Sheila Turnage
