Character Matters | Envy - 1 Samuel 18: 1-16 - Clint Leavitt

1. “She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, She's Cheer Captain, and I'm on the bleachers, Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find, That what you're looking for has been here the whole time, If you could see that I'm the one, Who understands you, Been here all along, So, why can't you see? You belong with me, You belong with me.” -Taylor Swift, You Belong With Me 2. “But it's my right to be hellish, I still get jealous.” -Nick Jonas, Jealous 3. “We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things [read: to envy], even before the old have been entirely consumed. Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.” -Paul Mazur 4. Study on envy: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/193216/1/dp11922.pdf 5. Study on medical effects of envy: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=1&contentid=1848#:~:text=Envy%20and%20jealousy%20also%20add,with%20some%20forms%20of%20cancer 6. “Discussing envy is akin to treading on a territory of unseen warfare. Hidden, improvised explosive devices abound…This volatile sensitivity attests to why envy may be of titanic relevance in human psychology.” -Dr. Frank John Ninivaggi, in Learned Mindfulness 7. “As a moth gnaws a garment, so does envy consume a person.” -John Chrysostom 8. “Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else be as unsuccessful as you are.” -Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking 9. Envy and Avarice, by Victor Hugo 10. “Envy senses no pleasure, satisfaction, joy, or glee, only the mental pain of absence, privation, and unbearable intolerance needing deletion.” -Dr. Frank John Ninivaggi, Learned Mindfulness 11. “Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.” -Joseph Epstein, Envy 12. “The fundamental attitude of the envious is directly opposed to love. To love is to seek others’ good and rejoice when they have it. To envy is to seek to destroy others’ good and sorrow over their having it.” -Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung, Glittering Vices