John Chrysostom Quotes

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

I control my anger.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.