"Well,
what
can I say, baby. The world is full of anger and people have
a way of saving it up and then dumping it on the next
unsuspecting poor soul that gets in their way. Please, don't
let this get under your skin, just ignore it. You better
*learn* how. Don't let this ugliness in your heart, because
in this human form, what's in your heart is what you
become." ~~Tess, Monica's
Bad Day
"I learned a terrible lesson today. A simple gesture, a
hateful remark, a single word can change the world."
~~Monica, Monica's Bad
Day
"Guard your heart, Angel Girl. It's the wellspring of life.
Well, your heart and your soul's like a river that can be
poisoned very easily if you're not careful. You see there,
it's started all ready. You let that man get to you and now
you've taken up his anger. It's like some kind of a human
virus you've caught." ~~Tess, Monica's Bad Day
"I tried to tell you, baby. That attitude that you've caught
is contagious. It should have stopped with you, but it
didn't. Now it's just going to be passed from one person to
the next to the next to the next. And before we get out of
here, everybody in this place will have it." ~~Tess, Monica's Bad Day
"Words can be just as dangerous. They have substance and
power, and when they come at you in the form of anger, they
can tear into a soul and knock it to the ground." ~~Monica,
Monica's Bad Day
"You should be back there right now.... thinking that maybe
there *are* good reasons to stay alive. But instead you're
here, and you're here because of something that *I* did. I
didn't even know I was doing it. A river starts with a
stream, that began with a creek, and was once a single drop
of water. And in life, a world of hate begins with a room
full of anger, that starts with a single word--one thought,
one act. It should have stopped with me. If I would have
just forgiven right there and then, the anger would have
died in my heart. But instead it got stronger and uglier and
moved from heart to heart to heart until finally it reached
you." ~~Monica, Monica's
Bad Day
"The gift of mercy is twice blessed; it blesseth him that
gives and him that receives." ~~Monica, The
Quality of Mercy
When angry: "You gotta do something to let it out because if
you don't it just eats you up inside." ~~Andrew, How Do You Spell Faith?
"Why don't you talk to your adversary? You could start
with the truth, always a good technique. It may not be
pretty, but there's a pressure cooker building up in you,
and truth is kinda like a safety valve. Let it out
slow and even, and maybe you won't blow up all at once." ~~
Andrew, The Quality of
Mercy
"Frightened people often hide behind anger." ~~ Tess, Birthmarks
"Sometimes the act of forgiving is not something you do for
the other person but something you do for yourself." ~~
Monica, Something Blue
"With out forgiveness there is no healing." ~~ Tess, The Homecoming, Part I
"Anger is the child of fear." ~~Monica, Full Moon
"No healing can ever begin until first some
forgiveness takes place." ~~Andrew, Deconstructing Harry
"I'll tell you
something. It is okay to be angry... You got
to do something to let it out because if you don't it
just... it just eats you up inside." ~~Andrew, How Do You Spell Faith?
"Sooner or
later the hatred in a man's heart finds its way into his
words and into his hands until he finally becomes the
creator of evil itself." ~~Sam, Beautiful Dreamer
"You cannot go
to God with all that hate in you. You've got to get
rid of that first." ~~Tess, I Do
"When anger turns to
hate it becomes a noose around your own neck. The more
you hate, the tighter it becomes."
~~Monica, God Bless the
Child
"He
understands
the pain, the grief, the anger that you feel for the world,
for God, even for yourself." ~~Monica, Reasonable Doubt
"I think it takes a lot of
faith to be angry at God." ~~Monica,
Thief of Hearts
"He created you. He knows
your heart because He made it. He can see the anger
and the pain and the betrayal and the fear that's in
it. But He can also see that love that's still there."
~~Monica, Vision of Thy
Father
"God didn't take anything from
you. These things just happen in life sometimes."
~~Monica, The Penalty Box
"Even friends can disagree."
~~Monica, Chutzpah
"You must not hate what God loves. And God loves you."
~~Monica, A Rock and a
Hard Place
"Fighting hate with more hate
is never the answer. But when we resist evil it loses
power." ~~Monica, Two
Sides to Every Angel
"Life is not fair sometimes but God always is." ~~Monica, Remembering Me, Part II
"The only thing better than forgiving is being
forgiven." ~~Andrew, Vengeance is Mine (aka
Saving Grace) Part II
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