Wrath Quotes

• I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Anger, Resentment

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

  Omar Khayyam

  Light, Taverns, Temples

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.201, University of Virginia Press

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• Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

  William Shakespeare

  Dragons, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Vintage, People

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.22, Penguin

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Blow, Wind

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• Come not within the measure of my wrath.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.372, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Karma, Children, Father

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.547, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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• Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Lasts, Said

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• The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Flames, People, Consuming

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.18, tredition

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• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fear, Blessing, Men

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• God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God

  D. A. Carson

  Love Is, Emotional, People

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• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

  D. A. Carson

  Jealous, Love Is, Perfection

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• He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Eye, Men

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.125, Penguin

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• The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

  John Piper

  Meditation, Way, Compromise

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• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

  Julia Ward Howe

  God, War, Eye

  "Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 1 (1862)

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• 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.'

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Anger, Sins Not

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

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• How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, Scare

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.190, Hamilton Books

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• But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

  Theodore Roethke

  Sleep, Dark, Blessing

  Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz (1966). “The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems”

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• The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Way, Sin

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Fierce

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• Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Angry Man, Christ

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• And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

  John Steinbeck

  Strength, Sound, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.191, Hamilton Books

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• God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Blessing, Distinguished

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