Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

some of these claim to be Christ’s followers, but
they are not. Jesus has set them no such example....
They are unreasonable and not easily persuaded or
convinced. They are not sane; Satan for the time
has full control. Every one of these exhibitions of
wrath weakens the nervous system and the moral
powers and makes it difficult to restrain anger on
another provocation.—The Youth’s Instructor,
November 10, 1886. (Sons and Daughters of God,
142.)
Intoxicated With Wrath.—How Satan exults
when he is enabled to set the soul into a white heat
of anger! A glance, a gesture, an intonation, may
be seized upon and used as the arrow of Satan to
wound and poison the heart that is open to receive
it.—The Signs of the Times, September 21, 1888
When one once gives place to an angry spirit,
he is just as much intoxicated as the man who has
put the glass to his lips.—MS 6, 1893
Christ treats anger as murder... Passionate
words are a savor of death unto death. He who
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