Daily Inspiration Quote by Thomas Fuller

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul” lands with the blunt clarity of a seventeenth-century pulpit line that knows its congregation. Fuller, an English clergyman writing through civil war, regicide, and religious fracture, isn’t romanticizing rage; he’s rehabilitating it. “Sinews” is doing the heavy lifting. It’s anatomical, unglamorous, and functional: sinews bind muscle to bone, translating intention into motion. Anger, for Fuller, is not a moral mood swing but a kind of inner tensile strength - the connective tissue between conscience and action.

The subtext is an argument against the pious pose of serenity. In a Christian tradition that warns against wrath, Fuller threads a needle: anger can be dangerous, but it’s also evidence that the soul is alive to offense and injustice. A person who cannot be angered might look holy; Fuller implies they may simply be inert. The line grants anger a place in the moral physiology, not as the brain (reason) or the heart (love), but as the mechanism that lets either one move the body toward correction, resistance, or repair.

Context matters: in a society where authority was contested and belief carried political consequences, the temptation was either fanatic heat or numbed compliance. Fuller’s metaphor quietly polices both extremes. Anger is a sinew, not the whole body. Useful when it serves the soul’s purpose, catastrophic when it takes command.