Best 461 quotes in «bitterness quotes» category

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

Bitterness is so ugly.

Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

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.

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

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

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

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.

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

Everybody wants to get into the act!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

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!

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

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.

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

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.