Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!