Quotes About Grudge

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

cuando le puse veneno en la tortilla, hasta me vino una alegría. Porque él no había tenido pena de mamá, cuando mamá se moría. Yo tampoco tuve pena de él. Ahora estamos todos a mano.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. C. S. LEWIS A

How sad. I've just had a walk down The Grange and passed an angry old man from my old church. He just turned round, stood, and glared, shaking his head at me. I don't understand why people are sometimes so hostile and never seem to be able to let go. This poor chap and many like him have attended church every week of their lives, and yet it seems to have had no impact whatsoever on their characters. Alas, it is a mystery indeed.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.

It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement

Resentment" is one such euphemism: a polite word for the longing to hurt those you believe have wronged you. The politics of resentment are the politics of revenge.

Ann said, "My father died when he was seventy-seven, still unable to forgive his mother.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one's home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Does our lack of forgiveness really punish them, or does it just make our hearts hard and our lives unpleasent.