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Quotes About Wrath

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
~ R. C. Sproul
God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
~ George Herbert
The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.
~ Rick Warren
Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.
~ A. J. Jacobs
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
~ Agatha Christie
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .
~ Ambrose Bierce
I could never endorse any candidate because not one of them is saying that which would save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).
~ Louis Farrakhan
Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
~ Martin Luther
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.
~ Frederick Lenz
Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
~ J. I. Packer
We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.
~ Jerry Bridges
When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels. He will send Magdalena. Then take her away.
~ Josh Bazell
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
So help me, I won't rest until I bathe in your entrails! (Apollymi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
~ Martin Luther
Wrath, gealosie, griefe, loue do thus expell: Wrath is a fire, and gealosie a weede, Griefe is a flood, and loue a monster fell; The fire of sparkes, the weede of little seede, The flood of drops, the Monster filth did breede: But sparks, seed, drops, and filth do thus delay; The sparks soone quench, the springing seed outweed, The drops dry vp, and filth wipe cleane away: So shall wrath, gealosie, griefe, loue dye and decay.
~ Edmund Spenser
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies
~ Edward Gibbon
A solemn embassy, armed with full powers and magnificent gifts, was hastily sent to deprecate the wrath of Attila; and his pride was gratified by the choice of Nomius and Anatolius, two ministers of consular or patrician rank, of whom the one was great treasurer, and the other was master-general of the armies of the East.
~ Edward Gibbon
On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.
~ Edward Gorey
How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn't have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to the ears. Some tiny creature, filled with wrath, Is coming nearer on the path.
~ Edward Gorey