Quotes about Feelings

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

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

Emotions are the language of the soul.

Allow yourself to experience the full weight of your feelings. Allow them without censoring them. Then you can reflect and thoughtfully decide what to do with them. Trust God to come to you through them. This is the first step in the hard work of discipleship.

The issue is not, by any means, to blindly follow our feelings, but to acknowledge them as a part of the way God communicates to us.

God may be screaming at us through our physical body while we look for (and prefer) a more "spiritual" signal. The reality is that often our bodies know our feelings before our minds.

One of our greatest obstacles in knowing God is our own lack of self-knowledge. So we end up wearing a mask—before God, ourselves, and other people. And we can't become self-aware if we cut off our humanity out of fear of our feelings. This fear leads to unwillingness to know ourselves as we truly are and stunts our growth in Christ.

Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most--feels the noblest--acts the best.