Don’t be so bitter that you scare away the better coming to meet you.
Bitterness
Brad Jersak
I was reading the Bible. Vengeance is apparently not a Christian option.
Ted Dekker
Any time you find yourself worrying about anything, or upset because someone has dishonored or betrayed you, it is only because you have placed your faith in something other than Jesus. As such, you have lost your faith in Him and instead put it in something or someone else.
Katherine Walden
A hard Biblical truth
The God of Heaven and Earth knitted your worst enemy together in their mother’s womb, loves them and deeply desires them to repent and believe. Remember that the next time you are tempted to curse them.
Gary Chapman
Many people mess up every new day with what happened yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday, and in so doing pollute a potentially wonderful day. When bitterness, resentment, and revenge are allowed to live in the human heart, words of affirmation will be impossible to speak.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Francis Frangipane
If we are habitually grumbling and complaining, we should beware; the path we are on leads away from Christ.
Dick Eastman
To pray with bitterness toward fellow men nullifies hours on our knees.
Tom Drout
We cannot live with bitterness because it will first manifest itself in our spirit, then in our emotions, and finally in our bodies.
Evelyn Whitehead
We can no longer harbor it [unforgiveness and hurt] for later use against the other person. We must surrender the wound or injustice that may have become a cherished, if bitter, possession. Letting go of this vengeful possession, we lose a painful advantage we have been savoring, but we regain the personal energy that has been dissipated as we nourished this hurt.