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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.