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I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
Author
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Pauline Joyce Hutchison
Dies
Harmful
Experience
Hoping
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Bitterness
Really
Poison
Way
Depression
Like
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Personal
Unforgiveness
Enemy
Damaging

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