Bitterness Quotes - Page 22

• Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it

  Gerald Priestland

  Christian, Writing, Suffering

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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 and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Beautiful, Waiting, Suffering

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• Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Abortion, Understanding

  "Ronald Reagan".

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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 left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pain, Sleep, Sunshine

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• The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

  Ian Fleming

  Kissing, Hands, Boredom

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Heart, Fighting, Sheep

  Elizabeth Moon (1988). “Sheepfarmer's Daughter”, p.708, Baen Books

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• Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

  Zane Grey

  Hate, Grief, Fighting

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• As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

  Chip Ingram

  Hurt, Patterns, Manipulation

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• You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

  Jim Goad

  Feelings, Way, Be Careful

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• Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Fear, Fate, Cups

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.314, Macmillan

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• What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back." He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back.

  Nora Roberts

  Struggle, Grateful, Worry

  Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.62, Penguin

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• Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we can see that they weren't intentional in trying to hurt us. That's when we need to confess our judgment of them and forgive them for their unintentional hurts committed against us.

  Cindy Wright

  Hurt, Revenge, Views

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• Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a marriage. Sometimes we think we have forgiven, but we don't realize how many layers there are. And if we don't deal with each layer, hardness of heart can set in and build up to monumental proportions.

  Stormie Omartian

  Heart, Thinking, Needs

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• Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Mistake, Impossible Things, Understanding

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• Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Memories, Doubt, Forgiving

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• People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

  Steve Toltz

  People, Suffering, Secret

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.227, Spiegel & Grau

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• There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

  M. Scott Peck

  Ends

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• You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

  Maya Angelou

  Cancer, Writing, Talking

  "Women Are Angrier Than Ever Before - And They're Doing Something About It" by Melissa Harris-Perry, www.elle.com. March 9, 2018.

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• Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Block, Higher Ground

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• And you became like coffee,
  in the deliciousness,
  and the bitterness,
  and the addiction.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Coffee, Addiction

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• There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

  Marc Maron

  Criticism, Lines, Fine

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• I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

  Nicole Krauss

  Years, Forgiving, Want

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

  Widad Akrawi

  Disappointment, Regret, Sadness

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• I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? 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?

  Richard Russo

  Regret, Father, Feelings

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• Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Soul, Suffering

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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