Quotes about Feelings

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I fight with you because I have a heart problem. Rather than my heart being ruled by God and motivated by God's honor, my heart is ruled by my wants, my needs, and my feelings.

Feeling like God is far away, disinterested, or dead to you is part of our Bible and can't be brushed aside. And that feeling—no matter how intense it may be, and even offensive as it may seem—is never judged, shamed, or criticized by God. Worshipping other gods or acting unjustly toward others gets criticized about every three sentences, but not this honest talk of feeling abandoned by God.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

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.

I'd rather go through life feeling everything in all its intensity than feeling nothing whatsoever." Faith

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.