Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

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

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

If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ...you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

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

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

I never hold a grudge.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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

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.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

I’m not in the forgive and forget battalion.

I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It's chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.

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

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

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