A
lady once came to Billy Sunday and tried to rationalize her angry outbursts.
"There's nothing wrong with losing my temper," she said. "I blow up, and then
it's all over." "So does a shotgun," Sunday replied, "and look at the damage it
leaves behind!" - Billy Sunday.
Turn
to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has
been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had
been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ Because He
has died for you, you were forgiven. - Paris Reidhead
If
a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to
meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is
sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are. - Henry Ward Beecher
Of
the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to
smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect
of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel
both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back - in many ways it
is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down
is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. - Frederick Buechner
When
I have a hasty thought against a man and wish him out of the world, I have
killed him in thought, and even though I may disguise the wish under the
expression of wishing him in heaven, there is guilt in the desire. Oh the hard,
cruel, black thoughts which men have towards one another, when they are angry;
why they kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon
forgotten by us, but they are not so soon forgotten by God. - Charles
Spurgeon
For
so long as we dwell in the tabernacle of this body and are enveloped with this
fragile flesh, we can but restrain and regulate our affections and passions; we
cannot wholly extirpate them. Knowing this the psalmist says: “be ye angry and
sin not;” which the apostle [Paul] explains thus: “let not the sun go down upon
your wrath.” For, if to be angry is human, to put an end to one’s anger is
Christian. - Jerome
Now consider the even-tempered person, who finds constructive outlets for
outrage and anger; who is unflappable and steady in the wildest storm; who never
stoops to return evil for evil; who doesn’t permit his temper to flare up, even
in circumstances where others would deem it appropriate to be angry. In that
person you see the truth of the Biblical proverb that calm words turn away
wrath. That person forges ahead through the storms of life like a giant ocean
liner, steadied by an internal gyroscope, slicing through the waves and not
being tossed around by them. - Ken Collins
A
lady once came to Billy Sunday and tried to rationalize her angry outbursts.
"There's nothing wrong with losing my temper," she said. "I blow up, and then
it's all over." "So does a shotgun," Sunday replied, "and look at the damage it
leaves behind!" - Billy Sunday.
Turn
to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has
been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had
been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ Because He
has died for you, you were forgiven. - Paris Reidhead
If
a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to
meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is
sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are. - Henry Ward Beecher
Of
the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to
smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect
of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel
both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back - in many ways it
is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down
is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. - Frederick Buechner
When
I have a hasty thought against a man and wish him out of the world, I have
killed him in thought, and even though I may disguise the wish under the
expression of wishing him in heaven, there is guilt in the desire. Oh the hard,
cruel, black thoughts which men have towards one another, when they are angry;
why they kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon
forgotten by us, but they are not so soon forgotten by God. - Charles
Spurgeon
For
so long as we dwell in the tabernacle of this body and are enveloped with this
fragile flesh, we can but restrain and regulate our affections and passions; we
cannot wholly extirpate them. Knowing this the psalmist says: “be ye angry and
sin not;” which the apostle [Paul] explains thus: “let not the sun go down upon
your wrath.” For, if to be angry is human, to put an end to one’s anger is
Christian. - Jerome
Now consider the even-tempered person, who finds constructive outlets for
outrage and anger; who is unflappable and steady in the wildest storm; who never
stoops to return evil for evil; who doesn’t permit his temper to flare up, even
in circumstances where others would deem it appropriate to be angry. In that
person you see the truth of the Biblical proverb that calm words turn away
wrath. That person forges ahead through the storms of life like a giant ocean
liner, steadied by an internal gyroscope, slicing through the waves and not
being tossed around by them. - Ken Collins