Quotes about Anger

Anger and condemnation like vengeance, are safely left to God. We must beware of believing that it is okay for us to condemn as long as we are condemning the right things. It is not so simple as all that. I can trust Jesus to go into the temple and drive out those who were profiting from religion, beating them with a rope. I cannot trust myself to do so.

Righteous anger invites change. It can envision what the other might look like if the arrogance controlling the heart was pierced. Anger is a surgical weapon, designed to destroy ugliness and restore beauty. In the hands of one who is trained in love and who can envision beauty, the knife of righteous anger is a weapon for restoration.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.