quotes about Wrath
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Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
-- Abu Hanifa -
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
-- Alcaeus -
I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.
-- Ally Carter -
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When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.
-- Andrew Johnson -
Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve.
-- Anton Szandor LaVeySource : "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.
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By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.
-- Arthur Tappan Pierson -
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
-- Barry EichengreenSource : "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.
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The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.
-- Billy Graham -
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
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Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.
-- C.E. MurphySource : C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.132, Harlequin
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If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
-- Charlton Heston -
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The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.
-- Connie Willis -
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
-- D. A. Carson -
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
-- D. A. Carson -
Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
-- D. A. Carson -
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Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.
-- D. A. Carson -
God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God
-- D. A. CarsonSource : Ellen Galinsky (1990). “The Preschool Years”
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As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.
-- David Platt -
Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
-- David Wilkerson -
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.
-- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
-- Edward Gorey -
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.
-- Edwin Arlington RobinsonSource : Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”
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God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
-- Emile Zola -
In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.
-- Eric Hoffer -
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .
-- Eric Hoffer -
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
-- Euripides -
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And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.
-- Félix J. PalmaSource : Félix J. Palma (2011). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.570, Simon and Schuster
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Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America, land of the sodomite damned. We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, for answering the prayers of those that are under the altar.
-- Fred PhelpsSource : "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
-- Friedrich Engels -
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
-- George CanningSource : 'New Morality' (1821) l. 207
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room ...
-- George Eliot -
What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.
-- George Whitefield -
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The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.
-- Glen Duncan -
I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have given you up, and I will help you. In a little wrath I struck you, but with everlasting mercy I will glorify you (cf. Isa. 54:8). The measure of His kindness exceeds the measure of His discipline.
-- Gregory of Nazianzus -
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.
-- H. Allen Smith -
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
-- H. Richard Niebuhr -
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Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
-- Hadewijch -
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.
-- Harriet Quimby -
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me? --Wrath
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
-- Horace -
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P Newton (2011). “The Huey P. Newton Reader”, p.149, Seven Stories Press
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There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.
-- Ingmar Bergman -
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Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.
-- J. Oswald Sanders -
Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had to force yourself to endure my presence." She'd started to sob then. "I've always tried to be clean when I come to you. I spend hours in the tub, washing myself. But I cannot find the dirt that you see." -Marissa to Wrath
-- J.R. Ward -
Wrath jammed a finger in V’s face. “Don’t follow me. We clear? You don’t follow me.†“You stupid fool,†V said with total exhaustion. “You’re the king. We all must follow you.
-- J.R. Ward -
Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath
-- J.R. Ward -
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Bacon's on the way." He smiled. "Hey, they like you!" Wrath to Beth after the brother's bow to her.
-- J.R. Ward -
I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn't. Wrath and Beth
-- J.R. Ward -
It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck
-- Jacob Zuma -
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 of a nature contrary to itself
-- James Nayler -
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
-- Jane Fonda -
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
-- Jeph Jacques -
AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers ... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
-- Jerry Falwell -
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Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.
-- Jerry Falwell -
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
-- John Godfrey Saxe -
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
-- John Milton -
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The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
-- John Piper -
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.
-- John Piper -
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
-- John Steinbeck -
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.
-- Josef Pieper -
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One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
-- Joseph Addison -
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
-- Joseph AlleineSource : Joseph Alleine (1816). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise”, p.107
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Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
-- Josephine Hart -
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
-- Joyce Maynard -
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When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
-- Julian of Norwich -
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and we testify that the very baptism which he announced is alone able to purify those who have repented. It is the water of life. But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and of no benefit to you. For what is the use of a baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone? Baptize the soul from wrath and from covetousness, from envy, and from hatred, and, lo, the body is pure.
-- Justin Martyr -
Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!
-- Kane -
When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.
-- Karen Marie Moning -
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I think Gods wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. Its like a cosmic do-over.
-- Katee Sackhoff -
We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.
-- Lionel Trilling -
Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.
-- Lionel Trilling -
When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to them. For example, don't think that they ought not to have treated you so, being who they are, or whom they think themselves to be, or the like. All this is fuel and kindling of wrath, anger, and hatred.
-- Lorenzo Scupoli -
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The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
-- Lou Henry Hoover -
Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.
-- Lucy FreemanSource : Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”
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Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.
-- Lyman Abbott -
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
-- Marie de FranceSource : Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.218, The Floating Press
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The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
-- Martin Luther -
Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
-- Martin Luther -
I love my country enough to suffer its wrath
-- Martin Sheen -
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Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.
-- Michael Chabon -
Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.
-- Murong Xuecun -
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
-- Omar Khayyam -
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
-- Ovid -