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Jealousy |
Bible
Quotes & Promises
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Inspirational & Famous Quotes
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Definitions & Meanings |
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For the wicked boasteth of his
heart's desire, and blesseth the
covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
(Psalm 10:3)
Rest in the LORD, and wait
patiently for him: fret not
thyself because of him who
prospereth in his way,...
(Psalm 37:7)
Envy thou not the
oppressor, and choose none of his
ways.
(Proverbs 3:31)
A sound heart is the life
of the flesh: but envy the
rottenness of the bones.
(Proverbs 14:30)
Let not thine heart envy
sinners: but be thou in the fear
of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and
thine expectation shall not be cut
off.
(Proverbs 23:17,18)
Be not thou envious against
evil men, neither desire to be
with them.
(Proverbs 24:1)
Wrath is cruel, and anger is
outrageous; but who is able to
stand before envy?
(Proverbs 27:4)
Again, I considered all
travail, and every right work,
that for this man is envied of his
neighbour. This is also vanity and
vexation of spirit.
(Ecclesiastes 4:4)
Set me as a seal upon
thine heart, as a seal upon thine
arm: for love is strong as death;
jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of
fire, which hath a most vehement
flame.
(Song of Solomon 8:6)
And he said unto his disciples,
Therefore I say unto you, Take no
thought for your life, what ye
shall eat; neither for the body,
what ye shall put on. The life is
more than meat, and the body is
more than raiment.
(Luke 12:22,23)
For where envying and
strife is, there is confusion and
every evil work.
(James 3:16)
Wherefore laying aside all malice,
and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings,
(1 Peter 2:1)
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Inspirational Quotes from Famous People |
Jealousy comes
from self-love rather than from
true love.
--Unknown
Like hatred, jealousy is
forbidden by the laws of life
because it is essentially
destructive.
- Alexis Carrel
quotes
Jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of
fire.
- Solomon Ibn
Gabirol ben Judah quotes
(Spanish Jewish Leader, Poet and
Philosopher, 1021-1058)
Jealousy is the greatest of all
evils, and the one which arouses
the least pity in the person who
causes it.
- François de la
Rochefoucauld quotes
(French classical author, leading
exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
O!
beware, my lord, of jealousy; It
is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
--William
Shakespeare quotes
(English Dramatist, Playwright and
Poet, 1564-1616)
To
cure jealousy is to see it for
what it is, a dissatisfaction with
self.
--Joan Didion
quotes (American
Journalist and Novelist, b.1934)
Jealousy is the injured lover's
hell.
--John Milton
quotes (English
Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks
second, only to Shakespeare, among
English poets. 1608-1674)
It is not love
that is blind, but jealousy.
--Lawrence Durrell
quotes
Jealousy would
be far less torturous if we
understood that love is a passion
entirely unrelated to our merits.
--Paul Eldridge quotes
A competent and
self-confident person is incapable
of jealousy in anything. Jealousy
is invariably a symptom of
neurotic insecurity.
--Robert A.
Heinlein quotes
(American science-fiction Writer,
1907-1988)
Don't waste time
on jealousy. Sometimes you're
ahead, sometimes you're behind.
--Mary Schmich quotes
Dogs are our
link to paradise. They don't know
evil or jealousy or discontent. To
sit with a dog on a hillside on a
glorious afternoon is to be back
in Eden, where doing nothing was
not boring - it was peace.
--Milan Kundera
quotes (Czech
Novelist, Playwright and Poet,
b.1929) |
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