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It is remarkable that irritable people, after the agony of strong and prolonged anger and after experiencing all its torment, become, as they say, silken, meek and meek. What has been said about anger and irritability should also be said about other passions. The Lord Himself indicated the punishment for them in themselves, in their extreme agony. This is how pride, envy, hatred, stinginess, and love of money are punished. Each passion is its own teacher and at the same time the executioner of every person possessed by it (6). Why does a person sometimes suddenly become so enraged that he gets very excited, speaks quickly, abruptly and incoherently, breaks his hands, tears out his hair or beats others in a rage, madly breaks everything that comes into his hands, and does other things characteristic of someone who is insane and frenzied? Obviously because the spirits of evil from heaven are at work in his heart, inciting people to all kinds of evil and breathing malice and murder at everyone and everything. Why are there suicides of all kinds, as well as murderers of others? From the action in the hearts of suicides and murderers of the original suicide - the devil. That is why Christ the Savior and the Christian faith command everyone to have meekness and humility, which do not allow the spirits of malice and pride to act in their hearts, seeking the death of one and all. The Lord says: “Learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29). Human anger is a terrible, unnatural phenomenon in a person; it is often aroused in the heart because of the most unimportant reasons, because of self-love, pride hidden in our heart. We must remember that “the wrath of man does not bring about the righteousness of God” (James 1:20) (6). Passion is hot, vague, thoughtless, evil, impetuous, and therefore a person in passion, for example, in anger, says a lot of thoughtless, untrue, fictitious, evil things that he would not say in a calm state. Therefore, knowing from experience this property of passions, firstly, do not speak when you are embarrassed or angry, and excuse hot and irritated people when they hurl curses and reproaches, unfair or just (7). There is, brothers, another kind of mad people - these are angry, irritable, angry people. Have you seen angry, angry, angry people? How bad they are when they are angry!.. How ugly their whole face is! What sparkling eyes, like those of fierce animals, in which anger and rage are visible! We are all irritable, we are all prone to anger, and therefore we must all, in repentance, ask the Lord for a spirit of meekness, humility and patience. “Do not avenge yourselves, beloved,” the apostle exhorts, “but give room to the wrath of God. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord” (Rom. 12:19) (9). You might be interested in: