Christian quotes on Anger

'Only the person who becomes irate without reason, sins. Whoever becomes irate for a just reason is not guilty. Because, if ire were lacking, the science of God would not progress, judgments would not be sound, and crimes would not be repressed.'

--St. Thomas Aquinas

"Watch out for your anger to grow into resentment and hatred!"

--Christopher Majella Paul

"Hatred stirs up disputes but love covers all offenses."

--Proverbs 10:12

"Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger and do not give the devil a chance to work on you."

--Ephesians 4:26-27

"It is because anger and impatience are the very pith and sap of pride thalt they please the devil so much...There is no sin nor wrong that gives a man such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience."

--Saint Catherine of Siena

"Impatience is the beginning and occasion of every sin."

--Saint Catherine of Siena

"Impatience shows more clearly than any other sin that the soul is deprived of God."

--Saint Catherine of Siena

"There is no ideal situation. You can't get rid of your cross."

--Mother Angelica

"God's law in the Old Testament is clear and unambiguous: You shall not kill. Jesus is even more demanding: Every one who is angry is liable to judgment. Sins against the Fifth Commandment are easy to commit. Any time we think, speak or act out of anger or hatred or jealousy or revenge, we abuse God's commandment that we respect His most precious gift, the gift of life — especially human life."

--Archbishop Robert J. Carlson

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

--Bede Jarrett 

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. 

--Marcus Aurelius