"Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go, lest you learn his ways and set a snare for your soul." (Prov. 22:24-25)

"Anger is a fire; it catches, destroys, and consumes. Let us quench it by long-suffering and forbearance. For as a red hot iron dipped into water loses its fire, so an angry man falling in with a patient one does no harm to the patient man, but rather benefits him and is himself more thoroughly subdued." (Chrysostom, 345?-407)

James said, "So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God." (James 1:19-20)