Best 461 quotes in «bitterness quotes» category

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.

Everybody wants to get into the act!

Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

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

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.