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Quotes about Betrayal

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
- Warren G. Harding
An enemy can seek to harm us, but an enemy can't betray us. Betrayal can only come at the hands of someone we love and trust. That's why betrayal is so utterly painful. What is done to the heart is devastating.
- Darlene Zschech
Jesus understands the hurt you feel. He experienced denial and betrayal at the deepest level.
- Darlene Zschech
Separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.
- James Carroll
The shame I feel as a Catholic Christian, aware in detail of the ways that the Church sanctified the hatred of Jews, not only betraying Jesus but tilling the soil out of which would come the worst crime in history, is shame not only at what my people did, but at what I can now admit I might well have done myself.
- James Carroll
What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!
- Dorothy Sayers
He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
- Aesop
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
- Aesop
Surely she imagined things. But change in her life, her family's, especially around Christmas, meant pain, betrayal, trauma, and death.
- Rachel Hauck
I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.
- Beth Moore