Anger

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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


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