Bitterness Quotes
672 quotes by 507 authors
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Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.
— Paulo Coelho
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Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.
— Pope Francis
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Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
— Marion Woodman
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In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
— Nicholas Wolterstorff
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This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm…
— Ronald Rolheiser
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To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.
— Huineng
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"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"
— Joanne Greenberg
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Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at…
— Therese of Lisieux
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To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These…
— Tom Robbins
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...cast from your heart the bitterness...
— Vincent de Paul
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.
— John Owen
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Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain…
— Lee Strobel
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Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't?…
— Ronald Reagan
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The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness…
— Carolyn Mahaney
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So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do,…
— James Michael
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