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We construct walls when we are hurt to safeguard our hearts and prevent any future wounds. We become selective, denying entry to all we fear will hurt us. We filter out anyone we think owes us something. We withhold access until these people have paid their debts in full. We open our lives only to those we believe are on our side.
- John Bevere
This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.
- John Bevere
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
- John Bunyan
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.
- Martin Luther
It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.
- Edward Welch
remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.
- Richard Baxter
Almost all people are carrying a great and secret hurt, even when they don't know it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect, and walk into freedom.
- Rick Warren
Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.
- Rick Warren
Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.
- Rick Warren
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.
- Rick Warren
Because we're sinners, we hurt each other, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. But
- Rick Warren