After Anger

“There’s an enormous amount of outrage in the world that’s converted into angry plans of attack and destruction. A great deal of social action and political reform is fueled by anger; the results are nearly always worse than the conditions that provoked the action. If we’re going to do something about what’s wrong with the world — the spectrum of wrongs stretches from marital fights to world wars, from disobedient children to destruction of the rain forests — we have to acquire a better base to work from than our anger.”

– Eugene Peterson, Leap Over a Wall