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Thomas G. Morrow
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“The truth is that someone else may well have done something wrong, and our feeling of anger may well be his fault. But our blowing our stack is not his fault. It’s our own fault. We are not like animals, which, when provoked, have no choice but to react violently. When we feel angry, we have a choice to act either rationally or irrationally. Only one of these reactions qualifies as a Christian one. So it would be incorrect to say, “He made me lose my cool.” Rather, he made me angry, and I chose to lose my cool. We are responsible for what we do.”
― Overcoming Sinful Anger
― Overcoming Sinful Anger
“If we think of ourselves as a nothing, as a servant of all those we meet (as did St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thérèse of Lisieux), we will embrace the hurts and humiliations we endure as splinters of the cross we must bear for Christ. These are sacrifices that we can joyfully accept as offerings to save souls, including our own.”
― Overcoming Sinful Anger
― Overcoming Sinful Anger
“We can suppress our anger; or we can express it by sabotaging the efforts of those who caused it; or we can express it in an irrational tirade of bad words and insults; or we can express our anger rationally — or at least process it rationally. If we merely suppress an angry feeling, it will go down into our subconscious and wait for a chance to explode. And it will explode. It is better to do something constructive with it.”
― Overcoming Sinful Anger
― Overcoming Sinful Anger
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