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The truth is that someone else may well have done something wrong, and our feeling of anger may well be his fault. But our blowing our stack is not his fault. It’s our own fault. We are not like animals, which, when provoked, have no choice but to react violently. When we feel angry, we have a choice to act either rationally or irrationally. Only one of these reactions qualifies as a Christian one. So it would be incorrect to say, “He made me lose my cool.” Rather, he made me angry, and I chose to lose my cool. We are responsible for what we do.
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Thomas G. Morrow (Overcoming Sinful Anger)