Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Anger

"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack yor 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 drawbrack is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."

This is a dictionary for the restless believer, for the doubter and the dubious. It is full of wisdom from the Apostle Paul and Paul Tillich to C. S. Lewis and W.T. Stace.

From "Wishful Thinking" by Frederick Buechner

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