We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.
Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters. " (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.
I had been reading a lot of J. G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer society, the erotic charge of modern life, where the consumerist things we are coveting are just another form of destroying oneself - a modern world of uncertainty, where lost souls are trying to grab onto something for sense of contentment.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
