La Palma, A Treatise on the Particular Examen of Conscience
La Palma, A Treatise on the Particular Examen of Conscience, 1873, p. 92
- § IV. Instances of Anger.—Anger is the appetite for revenging injury or wrong. It is subdued, (1) By taking no vengeance, indeed, nor returning wilfully, or in intention, evil for evil. (2) By refraining, in the presence of him that has wronged us, from injurious and biting words, neither raising our voice in anger, nor lowering it out of sadness or aversion, nor refusing at seasonable times to speak to him by whom we have suffered; in his absence, not to complain of his deeds, or of himself, as being unjust, prejudiced, as favouring others, &c. In all these ways can we sin by anger.
- (3) By not nursing the remembrance of the injury received, nor indulge in thought that stir up indignation and strife; by setting aside the objections and answers wherewith the brain of an angered man is wont to teem.