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Quotes About Wrath

The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture
~ Douglas Wilson
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
~ Jerry Bridges
Surface-dwellers had an expression about the wrath of the gods. Since goblins didn't really care for gods, they had an alternate expression-they called it the wrath of the chef.
~ Jim C. Hines
There is a Spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is a nature contrary to itself.
~ Jim Pym
He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb
~ Ann Rinaldi
Bloodthirsty bitches
~ Euripides
CHOR. Some dreadful wrath of the Gods hath burst forth, and leads the seed of Tantalus through troubles.
~ Euripides
the wrath of God is always exercised in the service of God's good purposes. It is the unconditional love of God manifested against anything that would frustrate or destroy the designs of his love. A
~ Fleming Rutledge
God did not change his mind about us on account of the cross or on any other account. He did not need to have his mind changed. He was never opposed to us. It is not his opposition to us but our opposition to him that had to be overcome, and the only way it could be overcome was from God's side, by God's initiative, from inside human flesh — the human flesh of the Son.44 The divine hostility, or wrath of God, has always been an aspect of his love.
~ Fleming Rutledge
it should now be generally agreed that any concept of hilasterion in the sense of placating, appeasing, deflecting the anger of, or satisfying the wrath of, is inadmissible. The more important, and truly radical, reason for firmly rejecting this understanding of propitiation is that it envisions God as the object, whereas in the Scriptures, God is the acting subject.99 This is especially noticeable in Romans 3
~ Fleming Rutledge
She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.
~ Lisa Papademetriou
It is wicked of you to call on the wrath of God to satisfy your jealousy!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Sometime I'll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
~ Allen Ginsberg
You scoundrel, you have wronged me, hissed the philosopher, May you live forever!
~ Ambrose Bierce
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. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Violating these laws does not bring the wrath of God upon you, it brings the wrath of your sin upon you. You are never punished for your sins, never. And you never will be. You are punished by your sins, and you can't avoid it.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Nothing enrages Anglo-India more than the lantern of reason if it is exhibited for one moment after its extinction is decreed. All over Chandrapore that day the Europeans were putting aside their normal personalities and sinking themselves in their community. Pity, wrath, heroism, filled them, but the power of putting two and two together was annihilated.
~ E.M. Forster
You found the words for what we feel. We curse your enemies, Mavis Moody." "Oh. Well, then, um…" "May they rot in hell.
~ Eden Robinson
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
~ Edward Abbey
Dies irae, dies illa / Solvet saeclum in favilla / Teste David cum Sibylla [Day of wrath, that day, the earth will dissolve in ashes, as David and the Sibyl say].
~ Anonymous
Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.
~ Anonymous
Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
~ Anonymous
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
~ Anonymous