Theme
Witnesses on anger
Anger is not shut out of prayer: these witnesses carried it before God rather than against him.
A few words
I am the voice of Christ in the desert of this island.
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. Make it your habit to speak all your words gently, to every person and at every time; by this you will be kept from anger, which is an evil trait and makes men sin.
During which time I was awakened and brought to see myself poor, wretched and undone, and without the mercy of God must be lost.
The time has come for the sowing of earthly seed, of corn and of other things. We see men going forth to work from the end to the beginning of the night, taking all care that they may sow what is best and most productive, that the needs of the body may be supplied. And shall we, the husbandmen of spiritual seed, sleep our time away, and neglect to sow what we should?
All 7 witnesses on anger
- Antonio de Montesinos Anger at injustice, carried into prayer instead of being swallowed.
- Frederick Douglass Refusing to confuse God with what is done in his name.
- Ida B. Wells The refusal to look away, and truth held as a form of faithfulness.
- Nahmanide Prayer begins in the way one speaks to others the rest of the day.
- Richard Allen Dignity that does not shout and does not yield, and anger turned into a house built.
- Théodore Stoudite Prayer held inside a timetable, like work that is not put off.
- Wiremu Tāmihana To stand up for your own people without hurrying into anger.