Quotes about Resentment
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
— Peter Marshall
Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
— Joseph Wirthlin
working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.
— Wanda Brunstetter
Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.
— Dante Alighieri
Unforgiveness, resentment, and bitterness can give an excuse for demonic activity to remain in a life. With a cleansed heart, and with confession and forgiveness, a person can be set free from even the most insidious intrusion.
— James Garlow
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
— Dorothy Sayers
How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.
— Dorothy Sayers
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
— Randy Alcorn
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
— Hannah More