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Tag: Unforgiveness

  • Unforgiveness is poison

    Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die. Marianne WilliamsonClick to Tweet

  • Auschwitz survivor forgives

    “I believe forgiveness is such a powerful thing and maybe if I live long enough and talk long enough about it that people will try. Because this world desperate,y needs forgiveness and I want everybody to help me sow those seeds of peace throughout the world” Eva Kor, Auschwitz survivor who publicly forgave the Bazis…

  • Unforgiveness has friends

    Unforgiveness is not a loner. It brings its friends along for the ride. If you allow unforgiveness to settle, dwell, and remain in your heart, you will experience strife, hatred, anger, bitterness, jealousy, and resentment—all of which hardens your heart toward God. Cortney SargentClick to TweetWebsite: http://www.engagemagazine.net/connections/the-disease-of-unforgiveness/

  • Jail cell of bitterness

    Unforgiveness is choosing to stay trapped in a jail cell of bitterness, serving time for someone else’s crime Click to Tweet

  • Forgive the inexcusable

    To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C.S. Lewis – 1898-1963 British author and theologianClick to Tweet

  • Five Dark “Benefits” of Unforgiveness

    Five Dark “Benefits” of Unforgiveness Debt is power. There is power in having something to hold over another’s head. There is power in using a person’s weakness and failure against him or her. In moments when we want our own way, we pull out some wrong against us as our relational trump card. Debt is…

  • Unforgiveness

    Many people ruin their health and their lives by taking the poison of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. Matthew 18:23-35 tells us that if we do not forgive people, we get turned over to the torturers. If you have a problem in this area or have ever had one, I’m sure you bear witness with what…