Quotes about Emotion

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction. If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places internally.

Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.

Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline.

Children who are not loved themselves often find it difficult to love others.

Fear in a believer is a function of forgetfulness. To the degree that you forget who God is, who you are as his child, and what you have been given by his grace, fear is your default emotion.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

anger is always an issue of the heart before it is an act of physical aggression.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.