He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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.

Only you can control your future.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Sin is geographical.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Sometimes I lose my temper.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

By that sin fell the angels.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.