Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

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

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

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.

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

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

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

I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

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

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

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

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I never hold a grudge.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

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.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.