The life of the body is a heart at peace,
but envy rots the bones.
-Proverbs 14:30, WEB
Why compare yourself with another? If you find that they are better, wouldn’t your envy just be aroused? If you find that you are far better, wouldn’t pride just fill your heart?
For what is the point in always being conscious of where we stand as compared with another? What is the point of always competing and striving to be the very best?
God has made only one person that is you, there is no other. If you would like to be the best, be the best of who you are and you will find your peace.
“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.” – Thomas Merton
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” – Harold Coffin
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"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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