Anger

He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly (Proverbs 14:29).

“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath (Ephesians 4:26).

The wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God (James 1:20).

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Anger is quieted by a gentle word just as fire is quenched by water.
~ Bishop Jean Pierre Camus

There is no sin nor wrong that gives a man such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.
~ St Catherine of Siena

The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God toward me.
~ John Donne

To builds one’s activity on love and non-violence demands the greatest inner purification; one must constantly rid one’s heart of inordinate desires, fears, and anxieties, but above all, one must cleanse oneself of anger.
~ William Johnston

He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin.
~ Thomas Secker

There is a holy anger, excited by zeal, which moves us to reprove with warmth those whom our mildness failed to correct.
~ Jean Baptiste de la Salle, St

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