Quotes about Emotion
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
— DH Lawrence
The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.
— Amy Grant
Love is the beauty of the soul.
— St. Augustine
In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
— St. Augustine
My confession then, O my God, in Thy sight, is made silently, and not silently. For in sound, it is silent; in affection, it cries aloud.
— St. Augustine
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
— St. Augustine
It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.
— Gregory of Nyssa
When one loves, one does not calculate.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
— Tertullian
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
— Robert Barron
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.
— Catherine Marshall