Quotes about Comparison

His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?

“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.