Max Lucado Quotes

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.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

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 we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

Many people want payback and to see others suffer. Forgiveness is the key to freedom. You can choose to be enslaved and burdened or you can choose to be free. It's a choice. Forgiveness is a state of being. So once you do it, it alters who you are and the way you can be in the world.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

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

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

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

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

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

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

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

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.