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Suppose you have to carry 50 pounds, and you can carry that and no more. Well, you have strength enough for your task. If another man has to carry 100 pounds, and he can just carry that and no more, he is in exactly the same condition as you are. Here is a brother who has a large measure full of manna,…

Do you want to conquer envy and covetousness? According to a study from Denmark’s Happiness Research Institute, maybe you could give up Facebook. The study found that people who gave up Facebook for just one week reported suffering less envy and being “more satisfied with their lives” than those who…

Envy is one of the sins we are warned about repeatedly in both the Old and New Testaments. For an example, look at the list of fleshly sins in Gal. 5:21. Perhaps one of the reasons the Spirit continually warns us of such friends is what envy does to us. Forbes quotes editorial cartoonist Frank Tyger…

“GREEN WITH ENVY” Would like to know the origin of the phrase, : "green with envy" "Why do we turn green with envy? Judith S. Neaman and Carole G. Silver report that 'green' and 'pale' were alternate meanings of the same Greek word. In the seventh century B.C., the poetess Sappho, used the word 'green'…

ENVY, HURTS YOU Dwight L. Moody once told the fable of an eagle who was envious of another that could fly better than he could. One day the bird saw a sportsman with a bow and arrow and said to him, “I wish you would bring down that eagle up there.” The man said he would if he had some feathers for his…

There was once a young athlete who competed wholeheartedly in the public games and lost. The people of the town erected a great statue to honor the winner. Rilled with envy, the despondent loser decided he would destroy the statue. Every night, after it was dark, he would chisel at the base of the statue…