Henry B. Eyring Quotes

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Never give a Blow in a passion. Stay till your passion is over; and let the Offenders plainly see, that you deal thus with them, out of a pure Obedience unto God, and for their true Repentance.

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath; the deadliest poison is covetousness ;, the fiercest fire is hatred, ;, the darkest night is ignorance. The greatest gain is to give to others ;, the greatest loss is to greedily receive without gratitude ;, an invulnerable armor is patience ;, the best weapon is wisdom.

My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's what I did.

Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.