Proverbs 15:1 (NLT2) A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.
"Anger is a weed; hate is the tree." -- Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1992), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 19.
