Quotes about Comparison

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.