Capacity for Anger Desirable

The child should be taught to restrain his anger; but he can not restrain it if he has not got it. Anger is like fire — a good servant and a terrible master. Without capacity for anger Luther could not have fought the battle of the Reformation; nor our fathers the war of the Revolution; nor our reformers the war of Emancipation. — LYMAN ABBOTT.


Righteous Anger

The spirit which flushes with resentment at an oath is infinitely better than the spirit which listens with indifference, or which laughs with pleasure.

"Abhor that which is evil," says the Divine command; no man is safe unless he does. — LYMAN ABBOTT.


Anger at Sin a Duty

Every great sin ought to arouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community Which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern. — LYMAN ABBOTT.