Quotes about Anger

For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.

So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”