SO GOOD QUOTES

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  • No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.


    —St. John Chrysostom

  • One of the saints said, “Those who come closest to Christ achieve the greatest victories.” What does that mean? It means that if you’re generous, and kind, you’re giving, you might overcome anger inside your heart, you might overcome resentment, hatred, lack of forgiveness inside your heart.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • “I could have yelled, I could have screamed, I could have hit them…”

    Is this an act of mercy? I don’t understand. This is the basic — this is a thought you should reject, this  isn’t a thought you should be proud that you rejected. This is not an act of kindness offered.

    This is not an act of mercy, this is you not being able to control yourself.

    Sometimes people look at their inability to control themselves as an act of mercy—this is being cruel, this is the mind of the wicked.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • “Any spiritual struggle carried out by a quick tempered man is wasted. He’s undisciplined, out of control, unpredictable. An impassioned hot-head clouds his judgment, and robs him all sense of proportion so that he overreacts, brings ruin to the community and upon himself.“

    —St. Antony

  • “The quick-tempered man—even if he raises the dead—is not acceptable in front of God.”

    —Abba Agathon

  • Proverbs 14:16

    But a fool rages and is self-confident.

    A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,

    Quick tempered people create an environment of fear. They rage and are self-confident. This anger sometimes comes as a self-confidence, but it’s not—it’s more of a hurt and pain inside their heart.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • Every bad behavior comes from an unmet need.

    —Fr. Paul Girguis

  • “I spent whole years of my youth” I suddenly shouted, overcome by a terrible rage, “dreaming of being a thief, a murderer, a criminal, just so as not to be what you wanted me to be. And you can thank heaven I didn’t become one, for lack of opportunity. And all this because I lived with you, in this house.”

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • “If you restrain your anger, you yourself will be spared and in the process prove yourself wise and will be counted among the men of prayer.”

    —Evagrius Ponticus

  • So should the one inflamed with anger not pray at all? By no means! But instead of reaching for what is unattainable and even dangerous on account of his passionate condition, he should resort to those “short and intense” invocations of Christ, mentioned everywhere in the early monastic literature: those “short prayers” (as Augustine calls them), out of which the well-known “Jesus Prayer” developed.

    If you want to put the enemy to flight, pray without ceasing.

    These “concise,” “terse,” “repeated,” indeed “ceaseless” short prayers are the daily bread of whoever is tempted—even of him who is tempted directly by the demon of anger.

    Dragon’s Wine and Angel’s Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Anger and Meekness
    Gabriel Bunge