Quote Atlassourced quotes & context
Source identified
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Read & copy the quotation
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

James

Download image (JPG)

Source
King James Bible — James 1:20
Date
1611
English wording
King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning

Meaning of “For the wrath of man worketh not the…”

Anger is not automatically justified by intensity; the verse separates human wrath from the moral outcome a person may claim to be pursuing.

Source context

Where does it come from?

James 1:20 in the King James Version, immediately following the instruction to be slow to wrath.

Primary / edition source ↗

Customize your imageTen designs · Square or portrait · Preview and share
Themes

Ideas connected with this quotation

AngerCalmDiscipline Quotes About Habits, Practice & ConsistencyForgivenessPatiencePeaceResponsibilitySelf-Control Quotes About Restraint & JudgmentShortWisdom Quotes About Judgment & Living WellCharacter
Related quotations

Continue through nearby ideas

Source identified
Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude,—and the rarest, too.
Read & copy

“Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude,—and the rarest, too.”

John Ruskin · The Ethics of the Dust · 1866
Meaning & context

Ruskin separates patience from mere persistence: fortitude is not only continuing to act, but also bearing delay, frustration and incomplete results without losing steadiness.

Source details

The Ethics of the Dust, Lecture IV, Project Gutenberg #4701. Ruskin immediately contrasts many persevering people with the rarer patient person and later insists that genuine patience is not necessarily passive or idle.

↓ Download image (JPG)

Source identified
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Read & copy

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

Confucius · The Analects of Confucius · ancient
Meaning & context

The contrast treats composure as a feature of cultivated character rather than as freedom from all difficulty: the “superior man” is represented as settled enough not to live in continual inward distress.

Source details

The Analects of Confucius, Book VII, Chapter XXXVI, James Legge translation, Project Gutenberg #3330.

↓ Download image (JPG)

Source identified
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Read & copy

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

Seneca · Of Anger, Book II · c. 45
Meaning & context

Delay interrupts the first impulse of anger and gives judgment time to test whether the perceived offence deserves the reaction it initially provoked.

Source details

On Anger, Book II, section XXIX, Aubrey Stewart’s public-domain translation in Minor Dialogues, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and the complete Wikisource Book II transcription. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay” opens Seneca’s practical argument that postponement lets judgment test an offence and can allow anger to subside. It is Roman Stoic moral philosophy rather than modern psychotherapy or clinical anger-management evidence.

↓ Download image (JPG)

Source identified
coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances
Read & copy

“coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances”

William Osler · Aequanimitas · 1889
Meaning & context

Osler defines professional imperturbability as maintaining enough composure to perceive and act clearly when circumstances are difficult or urgent.

Source details

Aequanimitas, valedictory address delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on May 1, 1889; reviewed against the represented 1906 second edition of Aequanimitas with Other Addresses, Internet Archive identifier aequanimitaswith00osle_0. Osler defines imperturbability as ‘coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances,’ immediately followed by ‘calmness amid storm’ and ‘clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril.’ This remains historical medical-professional rhetoric about composure, not clinical guidance or an instruction to suppress emotion.

↓ Download image (JPG)