John Piper Quotes

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I was dead inside.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Anger is self-immolation.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Sorrow eats your heart and courage.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Hatred makes me energetic, but confused.

I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.