Quotes about Emotion
My sorrow is my castle.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
— Soren Kierkegaard
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
— Soren Kierkegaard
That in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
— Heinrich Heine
Hail divinest Melancholy.
— John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
— John Milton
If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.
— John Piper
On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.
— John Piper
God uses means to awaken joy in himself
— John Piper
Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.
— John Piper
Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.
— John Piper