Quotes About Wrath

An even darker side to the behavior of the needy, victim mother is that she may use her son as a sacrificial lamb. In addition to not protecting him from his abusive father, she may actually place him between herself and her husband in order to deflect some of his wrath away from her.

Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.

I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try to keep the family out of my writing. You find, on the whole, that men will forgive you everything if you say they are good in bed and the women if you say they are beautiful. It's the way to turn away wrath.

Justice for everyone is an alarming thought because it raises the possibility that it might come upon oneself after all. As the author of Ephesians puts it, "by nature" we are all "children of wrath, like the rest of mankind" (Eph. 2:3).

If you hate and resent a situation, you have fastened it to yourself, for you attract what you fear or dislike. When someone has been unjust to you, you are filled with wrath and resentment.

Wrath makes the heart pound, impels us against our nearest relations, drives the tongue to curses, creates havoc with the mind, generates hatred of our dearest, and dissolves the covenant of friendship.

God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

None of us deserves God's love. All of us deserve His righteous judgment and wrath (John 3:18, 36; Romans 3:9–12). It is easy to think of an evil and depraved man like Adolf Hitler deserving divine judgment . . .But think of the kind and good people that you know . . .They too will be lost if they refuse and neglect God's offer of mercy and forgiveness. God's judgment applies to them too.

Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder.

In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

Nothing irks some folks more than losing a God who is wrathful, angry, retributive and punishing. 

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

I love you, and you're the measure of my wrath. Declan.

nemesis. 'Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward another nemesis, the European Community's Executive Commission …' (Time magazine). A nemesis (from Nemesis, the Greek goddess of vengeance) is not merely a rival or traditional enemy, but one who extracts retributive justice or is utterly unbeatable.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword;His truth is marching on.

For I saw no wrath except on man's side, and he forgives that in us, for wrath is nothing but a perversity and an opposition to peace and to love.

But in God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved.

Discussion was always an unpopular option, leading as it did to calumny, stalemate, lamentation, and wrath.

Revenge is a king of wild justice.

Though we deserve your wrath, you instead always give us compassion.

The God King's wrath, she thought drowsily, is decidedly less wrathful than reported.