Anger - christiansquoting.org.uk

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

The trouble with letting off steam is-- it only gets you into more hot water.

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Swallowing angry words is much better than having to eat them.

The best answer to anger is silence. -- German Proverb

Little folk are soon angry. -- Scots Proverb

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121 &endash; 180)

It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. -- Aristotle

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. -- Proverbs: 16:32

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation overthings evil. Henry Ward Beecher

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. -- Charlotte Bronte

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. --Marcus Porcius Cato

An angry man is full of poison. -- Confucius

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -Sydney J. Harris

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.-Robert G. Ingersoll

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.... Thomas A. Kempis

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. -Neil Kinnock

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. - Elliott Larson

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) "Mere Christianity."

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened,my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. Martin Luther (1483-1546), Table-Talk, 319

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage. -- Andre Maurois

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. -George Jean Nathan

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-- Thomas Paine

Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings. -Arthur Ponsonby

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.~ Sheila Rowbotham, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

Francis Schaeffer knew when the Bible said 'in your anger do not sin' it implied anger itself was natural but striking out unfairly because of anger was wrong. Yet he suffered outbursts of anger his entire life, and in his anger Francis did sin, long after he accepted the authority of the Bible. In his freshman year in college in 1931 he snapped and pummeled an abusive upperclassman.
But his uncontrolled anger was no more evident than in 1937, in the second year of his marriage to Edith. Edith was expecting their first child. On one occasion he had to rush her to the hospital in his Model A Ford, only to learn it was false labor. Furious, he ranted at his exhausted wife's 'mistake'. A few weeks ater Priscilla was born but had to be resuscitated. This minor miracle mellowed Francis not at all. Priscilla was only two months old when Francis and Edith moved to another apartment. During the journey in the Model A Priscilla's attack of diarrhea and the subsequent smell triggered an abusive outburst by Francis. "Don't you even know how to put on diapers?" he screamed irrationally at Edith. Distracted, he rear-ended a car in front of them.
Francis Schaeffer once said he could not stand thisworld if he did not understand it was abnormal - that it was not the way God made it. Anger fueled much of his calling. But did Francis ever conquer his 'sinning in anger'? Yes and no. He became almost legendary in his patience with hostility during his countless speaking engagements. Yet evidence seems to indicate he still exploded in private with Edith and their four children - even to wailing and beating his fists on the wall.- Edith Schaeffer, The Tapestry 1981]

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it. -- Seneca

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man. -Anthony Shaftesbury

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.-- William Shakespeare

He never let the sun go down on his anger, though there were some colourful sunsets while it lasted. ~ A.A. Thomson in Alan Gibson, The Cricket Captains of England (1979 - [speaking of W.G. Grace]

Boredom is rage spread thin. -- Paul Tillich (1886-1965)