Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.
God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you. - Rick Warren
God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you.
- Rick Warren
Those that innovate the future understand history the best. - Rick Warren
Those that innovate the future understand history the best.
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. - Rick Warren
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage. - Rick Warren
I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage.
God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time. - Rick Warren
God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. - Rick Warren
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.
It takes no courage to say or do what's popular. - Rick Warren
It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times. - Rick Warren
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers. - Rick Warren
In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.
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