Thoughts about Envy & Anger…

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.” ~ Socrates

“Moral indignation is in most cases 2 per cent moral 48 per cent indignation and 50 per cent envy.” ~ Vittorio de Sica

“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.” ~ Gore Vidal

“Anger begins with folly, and ends with regret.” ~ Pythagoras

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.” ~ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ~ Buddha

“We get angry with others in direct proportion that we are angry with ourselves.” ~ Albert Ellis

“I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.” ~ Martin Luther

“The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is to be commended.” ~ Socrates

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~ Thomas a Kempis

“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.” ~ Andre Maurois

“A man is as big as the things that make him angry.” ~ Winston Churchill

REMEMBERING WHERE WE CAME FROM Chapter 1: The only good religion is a dead religion. Chapter 2: Faith is active trust, not blind belief. Chapter 3: Words are power. REMEMBERING WHERE WE CAME FROM Chapter 1: The only good religion is a dead religion. Chapter 2: Faith is active trust, not blind belief. Chapter 3: Words are power.

You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. ~ James 4:2 (NIV) You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. ~ James 4:2 (TNIV)

Meekness is not weakness, but power under control. Meekness is not weakness, but power under control.

Anyone who hates a fellow believer is a murderer, and you know that no murderers have eternal life in them. ~ 1 John 5:15 (TNIV)

God’s Process: Injustice  Wrath  Vengeance Our Process: Envy  Hatred of Roadblock  Murder God’s Process: Injustice  Wrath  Vengeance Our Process: Envy  Hatred of Roadblock  Murder

A QUESTION: What do you call the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people every year because of hunger related diseases, while we invest the majority of our money in our own pleasures?

Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. ~ Ephesians 4:28 (NRSV)

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? ~ James 4:5 (NIV) Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? ~ James 4:5 (TNIV)

I have been nailed to the cross with Christ. I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ~ Galatians 2:20 (TEV / NLT)

Be satisfied with what you have. ~ Hebrews 13:5 (CEV)

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship. Do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2 (NRSV)