Seeing Green Quotes

“Jealousy is a feeling of discomfort and anger that something you have is being threatened. This means that jealousy can sometimes be righteous. God himself is a jealous God (Exodus 20:5-6; Deuteronomy 6:15). Envy, in contrast, is distress over something that someone else possesses. It is always sinful, and it is not a feeling ever attributed to God.11 Covetousness is the desire for what someone else possesses. It would be satisfied simply to have what the other person has. Envy, in contrast, takes it personally that the other person has what he has, and would be satisfied to see the possession or quality destroyed rather than see the other person enjoying it.”
― Tilly Dillehay, Seeing Green: Don't Let Envy Color Your Joy

“don’t want to think that there is such a thing as a sheep and a goat (Matthew 25:31-36). I don’t want to think that there is such a thing as a wheat plant and a weed (Matthew 13:24-30). I really hate to think that there are virgins who remember their oil and virgins who forget their oil (Matthew 25:1-13), and I hate that somebody is not going into the wedding feast because they didn’t dress themselves properly (Matthew 22:1-14).”
― Tilly Dillehay, Seeing Green: Don't Let Envy Color Your Joy