Quotes about Emotion

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.

Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Love, that is day and night — love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come O you whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you, As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.

Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.

When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.