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• The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Arrows, Blood

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• We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Men, Blessing

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• The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Fire, Spiders, Looks

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (sermon), Enfield, Conn., 8 July 1741

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• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

  George Eliot

  Answers, Rooms, Ends

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

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• Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hate, Sin, Hell

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.325

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• The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

  John Steinbeck

  Long, Break, Turns

  John Steinbeck, Peter Lisca (1977). “The grapes of wrath: text and criticism”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Anger, Mind, Conviction

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

  Edmund Spenser

  Rage, Repentance, Late

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• My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Son, Long

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

  Plautus

  Men, Giving, Thanks

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• THE POISON TREE 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. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

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

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• Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

  George Herbert

  Men, People, Heed

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.188

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• A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Thought Provoking, Kingdoms, Sin

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• Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes, and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame, and the smoke of the burning , which God, by His breath, hath kindled therein, and upon, them, which will be held one in another, to the great torment and distress of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Eye, Fire, Flames

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• Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

  Pietro Aretino

  Anger, Pride, Men

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• The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Evil, Brave

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

  D. A. Carson

  Liars, Hate, Faces

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• I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

  Ally Carter

  Hate, People, Veins

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever.

  David Platt

  Son, People, Forever

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kings

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• It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God.

  Ray Comfort

  Sides, Almighty, Graves

  Ray Comfort (2012). “Threefold Gold”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Independent, Trembling

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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• Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.

  Ray Comfort

  News, Christ, Made

  Ray Comfort (2004). “Revival's Golden Key”, Bridge-Logos

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• Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Giving, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.22, NavPress

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