Quotes about Feelings
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
- Charles Spurgeon
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.
- Philip Yancey
It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Ah! How contrary are the teachings of Jesus to the feelings of nature! Without the help of His grace it would be impossible not only to put them into practice, but to even understand them.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.
- Joyce Meyer
I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.
- Ezra Furman
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
- Helen Keller
His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not share. She hated it. She loved it. She hated that she loved it.
- Ted Dekker
I never intended to hurt your feelings, my love," Sylous said as he drew his fingers along her cheek and back behind her ear. Rose inhaled desire as he traced the outline of her face. Her heart beat out of rhythm. Her skin tingled. Awe of Sylous had quickly turned to love long ago. He was her truest companion, the one she dreamed of and longed for. Next to God, Sylous had become her everything.
- Ted Dekker
The spiritual task is not to escape your loneliness, not to let yourself drown in it, but to find its source. This is not so easy to do, but when you can somehow identify the place from which these feelings emerge, they will lose some of their power over you. This identification is not an intellectual task; it is a task of the heart. With your heart you must search for that place without fear.
- Henri Nouwen