St. JAMES i, 20
“The Christian will have to remember that one of the very first duties he owes to his neighbour is the thorough subjugation of his own temper. The sins of the temper produce the worst results at once in our neighbour and in ourselves. They have a peculiar power of thwarting and injuring God’s work in the world, and of giving pain to our fellow-creatures. They hurt more than anything the right working of the body of Christ.”
“Anger is not to be suppressed but by something as inward as itself, and more habitual.”
“Resolved: - When I am most conscious of provocation to ill-nature and anger, that I will strive most to feel and act good-naturedly.”
“Resolved: - Never to suffer the least motions of anger towards irrational beings.”
JON. EDWARDS
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