"It's wise to remember that anger is just one letter short of danger." [Unknown]
"Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat." [John F. Boyes,19th century English classics scholar.]
"He that would be angry and not sin, must be angry at nothing but sin." [Attributed variously to Rev. William Secker, 17th Century British minister, and John Ruskin, Victorian art critic and social commentator.]
"The size of a man can be measured by the size of the thing that makes them angry." [Attributed variously to Winston Churchill and others]
"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." [Mark Twain]
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." [Attributed variously to Ambrose Bierce, American author and journalist, and to Dr. Lawrence J. Peter, American author and educator, et al.]
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.” [Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972), Jewish theologian and philosopher.]
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." [Marcus Aurelius, ancient Roman commander.]
"My life is in the hands of any fool who can make me lose my temper." [Joseph Hunter, 20th century Baptist pastor.]
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." [Indira Gandhi, the third Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics during the second half of the 20th century until her assisnation in 1984.]
"There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot." [Unknown]
“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, ancient Greek philosopher]
"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But t be angry with the right person, t the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not easy." [Aristotle, Greek Philosopher]
"The size of a man can be measured by the size of the thing that makes them angry." [Attributed variously to Winston Churchill and others.]
"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." [Mark Twain]
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." [Attributed variously to Ambrose Bierce, American author and journalist, and to Dr. Lawrence J. Peter, American author and educator, et al.]
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves” [Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972), Jewish theologian and philosopher.]
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." [Marcus Aurelius, ancient Roman commander.]
"My life is in the hands of any fool who can make me lose my temper." [Joseph Hunter, 20th century Baptist pastor.]
Many of the above quotes provide their own points of application. They do not necessarily represent the views of Orthodox Christianity; neither do they necessarily represent the views of Illustration Exchange.