'I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have. From the point of view of loving your neighbour as yourself (Leviticus 19:18), there is nothing that makes a person's falleness more undeniable than covetise - you feel it right in your heart, your bone. In that way it is instructive. I have never really succeeded in obeying that commandment, Thou shalt not covet.'
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, p.152.
