When your temper gets the best of you, it reveals the worst of you. And getting revenge is something you do to the other person, to make yourself feel worse.

So our Lord said, "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."

That troubled Sir Walter Scott until he had an experience with a stray dog.

He threw a rock at him to chase the dog away. But he hit him and broke his leg.

Instead of attacking him, the dog came limping to him and licked his hand.

"That dog preached a sermon to me," said Sir Walter, "as few ministers have ever presented it."

Don't strike back. Love back.