Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem
“A pretty good test of a man’s religion is how it affects his pocketbook.”
Francis J. Grimke
“It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed—this, despite the gospel.”
Howard Thurman
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Unrighteous anger condemns any who stand opposed to its pursuit of control. … [It] is a dark energy that demands for the self a more tolerable world now, instead of waiting for God’s redemption according to divine design and timing.
—Allender/Longman
Cry of the Soul
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back–in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
—Frederick Buechner
Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
Anger: [seeing slices of pizza with only broccoli on top] Congratulations, San Francisco, you’ve ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now YOU!
—Inside Out
