The worst-tempered people may be made gentle and loving in all speech, act, and disposition by the renewing and transforming power of divine grace. God can take the jangled keys and put them in tune if we will but put them into his hand. But we must strive ourselves to be sweet-tempered. We must watch the rising anger and quickly choke it back. We must keep down the ugly dispositions. We must learn to control ourselves, our tempers, our feelings, our passions, our tongues. We must seek to develop the gentle things and crowd out the nettles. The discipline is not easy, but the lesson can be mastered.