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• Hate is the wrath of the weak.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Hate, Weak

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• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Past, Rumor

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• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

  Theodor Reik

  Creativity, Artist, Ideas

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

  George Canning

  Heaven, Candid, Save Me

  'New Morality' (1821) l. 207

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• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  R. C. Sproul

  Idols, Justice, Grace

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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• A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

  Emile Zola

  Kindness, Punishment, Would Be

  Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”

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• There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Stuff, Sin

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Praying, Kind

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.192, Hamilton Books

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• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Monsters, Great Depression

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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• The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

  John Steinbeck

  Cutting, Forever, Quality

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Integrity, Patriotic

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An opera. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. An essay of Virgil's Georgics. Cato. A tragedy. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Three setts of medals illustrated by the ancient poets, in the foregoing dialogues”, p.278

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• I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

  Martin Sheen

  Country, Suffering, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Anger, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.315

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• Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .

  William Law

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Art and the Message of the Church". Book by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120, 1961.

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• Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

  Edward Gibbon

  Parent, Enemy, Superstitions

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2012). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.298, Cambridge University Press

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• Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

  John Steinbeck

  Kids, Fighting, People

  The Grapes of Wrath ch. 28 (1939)

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• There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Morning, Desire, Wake Up

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• A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

  Aeschylus

  People, Danger, Graves

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.16, Everyman's Library

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• The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Fool, Facts

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• Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

  Ovid

  Repentance, Ends

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• To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Sex, Kindness

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Blessed, Sins Not, Forgiving

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.363

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• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Son, Kissing

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• In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

  John Piper

  Pride, Proud, Affair

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.32, Baker Books

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