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

Hatred is settled anger.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

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

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

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.

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.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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

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

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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

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

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Sin is geographical.