Quotes about Sentimental

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.

Why do some people gravitate to a sentimental picture? Well, think about it: A sugar-coated Christ requires nothing from us—neither conviction nor commitment. Why? Because it's an image that lacks truth and power. We have to try to change that picture. And the only way to do it is to think about the resurrection.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.

It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate by way of mental effort; it's a ghastly desolation and impoverishmment. By contrast, we can be very glad when something affects us deeply, and regard the accompanying pains as an enrichment.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about