Bill Viola

The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.

American Artist

Jakob Bohme

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

German Theologian

Allen Ginsberg

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

American Poet

Use 'wrathful' to describe someone who is not just angry, but intensely so, with a strong emotional component.

Emotionally Charged

'Wrathful' implies a deep disapproval, not just a temporary irritation.

Strong Disapproval

'Wrathful' is more intense than 'annoyed' or 'upset', showing a high level of anger.

Intensity Matters

'Wrathful' often suggests a desire to punish or seek revenge, not just be mad.

Punitive Association

When 'wrathful' is used, it can imply a moral or ethical anger towards wrongdoing.

Moral Outrage

The word 'wrathful' is common in religious contexts to describe divine anger or punishment.

Religious Texts

 God as a human figure is often aligned with a wrathful more authoritarian view of God and this picture of God may cause primitive parts of your brain to release stress inducing neuro chemicals changing your picture of God to something more abstract may in fact cause you to be more optimistic and faithful so

What Does God Look Like...

 I want to address the issue of compassion. Compassion has many faces. Some of them are fierce; some of them are wrathful; some of them are tender; some of them are wise.