Quotes about Grudges

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

The weak hold onto grudges; the great hold onto love.

All couples fight, but healthy couples fight fair. Unhealthy couples fight dirty, with below-the-belt jabs, sucker punches, angry accusations, and bitter grudges. Healthy couples fight for resolution. Unhealthy couples fight for personal victory.

If I were your enemy, I'd use every opportunity to bring old wounds to mind, as well as the people, events, and circumstances that caused them. I'd try to ensure that your heart was hardened with anger and bitterness. Shackled through unforgiveness.

people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others. A person who possesses this characteristic and keeps score in relationships is a person who is emotionally wired to carry all the stress that goes with carrying grudges.

What do you think Jesus is gonna say if we come walking up to those pearly gates carrying a whole sackful of grievances and grudges on our backs? Jesus is gonna ask, What's that you toting there on your back? Do you want to be opening that sack and showing Him all those ugly things? He's dressed all in white and shining like the sun, and you're coming in with a load of hate in your arms? Umm hmm. I can't imagine doing that.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive."1

Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges; it doesn't make any sense to do it.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.