QUOTATION: Angry

In short, the theory that we must not be angry is the very charter of escape for all evil-doers who are strong enough to awaken anger."

--G.K. Chesterton,  "Vengeance"

QUOTATION: Kind Words

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke.

--St. Angela Merici

QUOTATION: Righteous Anger

There is also a holy anger, which arises from the holy zeal with which we may defend the affairs of our God and our Religion...Of this kind is the anger of a pastor whose heart is filled with zeal for the salvation of his flock and for the honor of his God. Woe to the priest who remains silent, when he sees his God dishonored, and souls erring from the right path!

--St. Jean Vianney, the Cure of Ars

QUOTATION: Anger

The old Adam is wrathful by nature, and the more so in proportion to his pride. Every proud man is violent, severe, and choleric. Impatience is nourished by pride, it is its voice and gesture. Wrath rests on the love that man entertains for himself, for his own ease, his own natural happiness. It is man's resistance to whatever tends to snatch from him what he loves. It is the cry of self-love and egoism.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: Meekness

We must besides practise meekness towards ourselves. It is a delusion of the devil, to make us consider it a virtue to be angry with ourselves for committing some fault; far from it, it is a trick of the enemy to keep us in a state of trouble, that so we may be unfit for the performance of any good.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Holy Eucharist

QUOTATION: Anger

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

--Pope Francis

QUOTATION: Anger at One's Sin

To be angry at ourselves after the commission of a fault is a fault worse than the one committed, and will be the occasion of many other faults; it will make us leave off our devotions, prayers, and communions; or if we do practice them, they will be done very badly.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Holy Eucharist

QUOTATION: Hope

Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: A Soft Answer

A soft answer puts away wrath, as water puts out fire.

--St. Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: Resentment

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Answering Back

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us,we should be careful.A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

QUOTATION: Unreasonable Patience

Further, the person who does not become irate when he has cause to be, sins. For an unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices: it fosters negligence, and stimulates not only the wicked, but above all the good, to do wrong.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Correction in Anger

Correction given in anger, however tempered by reason, never has so much effect as that which is given altogether without anger;for the reasonable soul being naturally subject to reason, it is a mere tyranny which subjects it to passion, and whereinsoever reason is led by passion it becomes odious, and its just rule obnoxious.

--St. Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: Anger

Depend upon it, it is better to learn how to live without being angry than to imagine one can moderate and control anger lawfully; and if through weakness and frailty one is overtaken by it, it is far better to put it away forcibly than to parley with it; for give anger ever so little way, and it will become master, like the serpent, who easily works in its body wherever it can once introduce its head.

--St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

QUOTATION: Anger

There are two methods to subdue anger. First, that before a person undertakes to act, he places before his mind the contumelies and sufferings which he will likely encounter, and, by reflecting on the shame borne by our Saviour, prepares himself to bear them patiently. Secondly, that when we behold the excesses of others, we direct our thoughts to our own excesses, by which we offend others. This consideration of our own faults will lead us to excuse those of others. For a person who piously considers that he also has something which others must bear patiently in him will be easily disposed to bear patiently injuries he receives from others.

--Pope St. Gregory the Great

QUOTATION: Anger

It is better not to allow anger, however just and reasonable, to enter at all, than to admit it in ever so slight a degree; once admitted, it will not be easily expelled, for, though at first but a small plant, it will immediately grow into a large tree.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Anger at one's sins

To be angry at ourselves for the commission of a fault is a fault worse than the one [already] committed and will be the occasion of many other faults.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

QUOTATION: Anger at Our Sins

It is a delusion of the devil to make us consider it a virtue to be angry with ourselves for committing some fault. Far from it! It is a trick of the enemy to keep us in a state of trouble so that we may be unfit for the performance of any good.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

QUOTATION: Anger

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then it is time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and suffering.

--St. Paul of the Cross

QUOTATIONS: Impatience

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