John Bevere Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

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

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

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

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

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

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

You can't hold a grudge against anybody; you gotta let it go.

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

I hate holding grudges.

But I don't hold grudges.

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

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left