Quotes about Anger

Like a tree, the Bible tells us, bitterness has roots.a Consequently, we can saw away at our frustrations, disappointments, angers, hurts, and sadness, but unless we dig up our root of bitterness, it only returns, sometimes bigger than ever.

The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it!

If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

I had times when I'd be reading the Bible, and it would be talking about Jesus healing other people, and I'd be angry. I asked God some difficult questions. 'Why didn't you heal my wife?'

Americans do not yet have the distance of history," I said. "But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil. War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.