"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
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