The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

I asked myself the question, "What do you want of your life?" and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, "Exactly what I have-but to be commensurate, to handle it all better."

The God who never gets mad for fear of offending the abused must sooner or later be construed as the God who never gets mad at the abuser.

According to Christian tradition, anger is numbered as one of the seven deadly sins,

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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.

define anger as an emotion of extreme frustration (something a baby knows) poised at the possibility of action (something a baby cannot know, or cannot fully know).

envy is one of the worst of vices because, alone among them all, it is indulged without pleasure. Perhaps for that reason it is seldom indulged without anger.

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but you can sometimes see the relationship between gluttony and wrath by observing the behavior of a certain kind of eater-often a man, in my experience-who grows visibly irritated when his food fails to arrive at the table as quickly, delectably, or hot as he desires. I