Apparently, the poet who asked God to "Throw away Thy wrath" would not have asked him to throw away the thunder.ANGER

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all of the other six can lead to anger; or we could say that anger is often symptomatic of the other six.

So much for that bit about choosing your battles.

One of the formative influences on Christianity was Stoicism.

But to divest God of wrath out of deference for those abused by anger is ultimately to salve their wounds with despair. It is to describe a God so benign as to be indifferent, so slow to anger that he is always late to save.

Pride and envy are companions, strongly with each other and more tenuously with the remaining deadly sins, in that both have to do with disproportion. Both have to do with a lack of proper balance within oneself and between oneself and the world.

CHRIST

A third misconception in our list has to do with our failure to see the relationship not only between anger and our unregenerate selves, but between anger and our integrity.