Quotes about Feelings

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

the laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.

Our mouth gives expression to what we think, feel, and want. Our mind tells us what we think, not necessarily what God thinks. Our will tells us what we want, not what God wants. And our emotions tell us what we feel, not what God feels. As our soul is purified, it is trained to carry God's thoughts, desires, and feelings; then we become a mouthpiece for the Lord!

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.

Too many things to say. Too many things unsaid.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.