Keeping Your Cool…When Your Anger Is Hot!: Practical Steps to Temper Fiery Emotions (41 page)

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Chapter 9—Fire and Ice
1
1 Samuel 20:34.

 

2
Jonah 1:9.
3
Jonah 1:17.

 

4
Jonah 4:1.
5
Luke 10:40.

 

6
Luke 10:41-42.
7
Matthew 6:25.

 

8
Matthew 6:27.
9
Matthew 11:28-30.

 

10
Proverbs 15:1.
11
Louis Lalleman, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, and Claude De La Colombiere,
For God’s Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality
, Jean-Pierre Lafouge, ed. (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2006), p. 71.
Chapter 10—Self-Inflicted Flames
1
1 John 1:9.

 

2
William Joseph Federer,
America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations
(St. Louis, MO: Amerisearch, 1994), p. 294.
3
James 1:12.

 

4
Jeremiah 29:11.
5
Isaiah 59:2.

 

6
Romans 3:23.
7
Romans 6:23.

 

8
See 2 Peter 3:9.
9
Romans 5:8.

 

10
See John 10:18 and Matthew 20:28.
11
John 14:6.

 

12
Philippians 4:13.
13
John 7:38.

 

14
1 Corinthians 15:34.
15
James 4:10.

 

16
Ezekiel 11:19.
17
John 5:24.

 

18
See Isaiah 61:3.
Chapter 11—Fuming at the Father
1
“Man ‘Angry at God’ Drives Minivan into Church Sanctuary,” Catholic News Agency, February 21, 2008. Additional background information: Hudson Sangree, “Minivan Plows into Church,”
Sacramento Bee,
February 21, 2008.

 

2
Aristotle,
The Nicomachean Ethics
, 2.9, translated by J.A.K. Thomson, revised by Hugh Tredennick (New York: Penguin Classics, 2004), p. 48.
3
Job 23:2-4.

 

4
Genesis 3:1.
5
Genesis 3:4-5.

 

6
James 1:17.
7
1 John 1:9.

 

8
Psalm 116:5.
9
Daniel 4:35.

 

10
Mark 14:34-36 ESV.
11
Luke 22:42.

 

12
Romans 8:28.
13
Helen Roseveare,
Living Faith
(Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1980), p
.
27.

 

14
Roseveare,
Living Faith,
p
.
27.
15
Helen Roseveare,
Give Me This Mountain
(London: InterVarsity Fellowship, 1966), p. 144.

 

16
Roseveare,
Give Me This Mountain
, p. 148.
17
Roseveare,
Give Me This Mountain
.

 

18
Roseveare,
Give Me This Mountain
.
19
The following narrative is adapted from Helen Roseveare, “Why Does a God of Love Allow Suffering?” (Barrie, Ontario: Woman Alive, n.d.), audiocassette.

 

20
Quote taken from Noel Piper “Helen Roseveare: Faithful in Loss,”
Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), p. 166. For a concise retelling of Helen’s story, this book is a helpful and inspiring resource.
21
Roseveare,
Living Faith
, p. 69.

 

22
Excerpted from Dr. Helen Roseveare, “Why Does a God of Love Allow Suffering?” audiocassette.
Chapter 12—Smoldering Embers
1
See also Ronald T. Potter-Efron,
Angry All the Time: An Emergency Guide to Anger Control
, 2d ed. (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 2005).

 

2
William H. Walton as quoted in Charles Gerber,
Healing for a Bitter Heart
(Joplin, MO: College Press, 1996), p. 74.
Chapter 13—Cooler Heads Prevail
1
Arizona Republic
, April 25, 1995.
2
Thomas Jefferson, as quoted in
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
, Suzy Platt, ed. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1989), p. 213.

 

3
1 Peter 1:13; 3:8-9.
4
Psalm 26:2.

 

5
2 Corinthians 10:5.
6
1 Chronicles 28:9.

 

7
On the three God-given inner needs, see Lawrence J. Crabb, Jr.,
Understanding People: Deep Longings for Relationship
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), pp. 15-16; Robert S. McGee,
The Search for Significance
, 2d ed. (Houston, TX: Rapha, 1990), pp. 27-30.
8
Philippians 4:19.

 

9
Psalm 118:6.
10
Philippians 2:3-4.

 

11
John 16:13.
12
Philippians 4:7.

 

13
Proverbs 21:29.
14
Ecclesiastes 3:1,7.

 

15
Colossians 4:6.
Chapter 14—Creative Combustion
1
Romans 12:2 ESV.

 

2
See Richard W. Etulain,
César Chávez
(New York: Macmillan, 2002), p. 117.
3
Dan La Botz,
César Chávez and La Causa
(London: Longman, 2005), p. 7.

 

4
Peter Matthiessen,
Sal si puedes (Escape if you can): César Chávez and the New American Revolution
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000), p. x.
5
La Botz,
César Chávez and La Causa
, p. 175.
Chapter 15—Bomb Squad Basics
1
Ephesians 4:30-31.

 

2
Ephesians 5:22.
3
Marie M. Fortune,
Keeping the Faith: Questions and Answers for the Abused Woman
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1991), pp. 28-29.

 

4
See Kay Marshall Strom,
In the Name of Submission
(Portland, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 1985), p. 56.
5
See Strom,
In the Name of Submission,
pp. 56-58.

 

6
Matthew 7:9-11.
7
See 1 Peter 1:6-7.

 

8
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV.
9
John Cook, as cited in
The Book of Positive Quotations
, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, eds. (Minneapolis: Fairview Press, 2007), p. 261.
Chapter 16—Quenching the Coals
1
Matthew 22:37.

 

2
Psalm 26:2.
3
Romans 12:2.

 

4
1 Peter 1:13.
5
Psalm 119:9,11 TLB.

 

6
Matthew 12:35.
7
Proverbs 25:11.

 

8
This story was adapted from J. Oswald Sanders, “How Do You Love?”
Discipleship Journal
, March/April 1981. To learn more about the life of the great hymn writer and poet, see
Frances Ridley Havergal: A Full Sketch of Her Life
by Edward Davies and
Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal
by Maria Vernon Graham Havergal (her sister).
Chapter 17—The Refiner’s Fire
1
1 Corinthians 13:4-5.

 

2
Malachi 3:3.
3
Deuteronomy 31:8.

 

4
Philippians 4:19.
5
Jeremiah 6:30.

 

6
Henry Ward Beecher as quoted in Roy B. Zuck,
The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations and Quotations for All Occasions
(Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1997), p. 13.
7
Malachi 3:3.

 

8
1 Peter 1:6-7.

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