Joyce Meyer Quotes

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

Bitterness kills the soul.

Some people just can't forgive. And that's just the way life is. You know, I can't forgive some things, either.

But I don't hold grudges.

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.