Anger

Anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything. -Lawrence Douglas Wilder

To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible. -Thomas S. Monson, School Thy Feelings O My Brother, Oct 2009

The people around us are not perfect.People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way.

Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive. Lay your burden at the Savior’s feet. Let go of judgment. Allow Christ’s Atonement to change and heal your heart. Love one another. Forgive one another. -Dieter F. Uchdorf, The Merciful Obtain Mercy, April 2012

With all the differences in our lives, we have at least one challenge in common. We all must deal with adversity. There may be periods, sometimes long ones, when our lives seem to flow with little difficulty. But it is in the nature of our being human that comfort gives way to distress, periods of good health come to an end, and misfortunes arrive. Particularly when the comfortable times have gone on for a while, the arrival of suffering or the loss of material security can bring fear and sometimes even anger. The anger comes at least in part from a feeling that what is happening is unfair. The good health and the serene sense of being secure can become to seem deserved and natural. When they vanish, a feeling of injustice can come. Even a brave man I knew wept and cried out in his physical suffering to those who ministered to him: “I have always tried to be good. How could this happen?” -Henry B. Eyring, Adversity, 2009

Thomas S. Monson, School Thy Feelings O My Brother, October 2009
 
Gordon B. Hinckley, Slow to Anger, October 2007

Scriptures:

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. -Ecclesiastes 7:9, Holy Bible

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. -Psalms 37:8, Holy Bible

And according as I have commanded you thus shall ye baptize. And there shall be no disputations among you, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto been. For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another. Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away. -3 Nephi 11:28-30, Book of Mormon

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. -John 13: 35, Holy Bible

Definition:

Anger - a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
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