Origen Quotes

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

I'm too mature to be angry.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit things back in the dugout, I try to quietly just put my helmet back. I may be very upset but I try to control myself.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.