Thoughts about Envy

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Thoughts about Envy Anger
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Socrates
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Moral indignation is in most cases 2 per cent
moral 48 per cent indignation and 50 per cent
envy. Vittorio de Sica
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little
something in me dies. Gore Vidal
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with
regret. Pythagoras
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That
it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare,
Henry VIII
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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
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We get angry with others in direct proportion
that we are angry with ourselves. Albert
Ellis
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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
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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
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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
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Everything that is in agreement with our
personal desires seems true. Everything that is
not puts us in a rage. Andre Maurois
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A man is as big as the things that make him
angry. Winston Churchill
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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.
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You want something but don't get it. You kill
and covet, but you cannot have what you want.
You quarrel and fight. James 42 (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 42 (TNIV)
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Meekness is not weakness, but power under
control.
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Anyone who hates a fellow believer is a
murderer, and you know that no murderers have
eternal life in them. 1 John 515 (TNIV)
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Gods Process Injustice ? Wrath ?
Vengeance Our Process Envy ? Hatred of
Roadblock ? Murder
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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?
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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 428 (NRSV)
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Or do you think Scripture says without reason
that the spirit he caused to live in us envies
intensely? James 45 (NIV) Or do you think
Scripture says without reason that he jealously
longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in
us? James 45 (TNIV)
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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 220 (TEV / NLT)
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Be satisfied with what you have. Hebrews
135 (CEV)
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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 121-2 (NRSV)
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