Anger

Anger May Lead You Where You Do Not Wish To Go

"Always be on your guard against your anger, and then you will not be carried away by other violent desires. Anger gives fuel to all sorts of other passions and always clouds the spiritual eye, disrupting the state of pure prayer." -- Evagrius of Pontus

Anger Not A Proper Reaction

"The devil hides himself behind our souls and we blindly think we're acting by ourselves. Then we defend the devil's work as something that is a part of us. Sometimes we think that anger is a fair reaction to something bad. But the idea that a passion could ever be fair is a total and deadly lie." -- St John of Kronstadt

A Christian Who Hates Is Still Dead In His Sins

"The Lord told us to love our enemies, so if someone claims to be a Christian and hates his brother, he is still dead in his sins. It is good that John added the word still here, because everyone is born in the darkness of sin and remains there until he is enlightened through Christ by the grace of baptism. But the person who comes to the font or to the Lord's Supper with hatred towards his brother is still in the darkness, even if he thinks that he has been enlightened by God, nor can he get rid of the shadows of sin unless he begins to love." -- Bede the Venerable, On 1 John

Handle Everything With Restraint

"The just man handles everything with restraint, demonstrating the remarkable degree of his own good sense and teaching not only those present at the time but also everyone in the future never to settle our differences with our relatives by feuding." -- St. John Chrysostom, Homily 33.8

Cleave to Those who Cultivate Peace with Godliness

"...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good... Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness..." -- St. Clement

Empathy in Place of Anger

"Let yourself be persecuted but do not persecute others. Let yourself be crucified but do not crucify others. Let yourself be insulted but do not insult others. Let yourself be slandered but do not slander others. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. Such is the sign of purity. Suffer with the sick. Be afflicted with sinners. Exult with those who repent. Be the friend of all. But in your spirit remain alone. Spread your cloak over anyone who falls into sin and shield him. And if you cannot take his fault on yourself and accept punishment in his place, do not destroy his character." -- St. Isaac of Syria