Notable and Quotable

The book of Jonah says that the thing that makes us the most angry with God, more angry than droughts and famines, male pattern baldness and cellulite, is God’s mercy. That is what really enrages Jonah, and if we are completely honest, it’s what enrages us too.

–Garret Keizer, The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004 Paperback), p.279

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