Quotes about Emotion
Indeed, too often the weakest thing about our faith is the illusion that our faith is strong, when the "strength" we feel is only the intensity of emotion or of sentiment, which have nothing to do with real faith.
— Thomas Merton
We will to separate ourselves from that love. We reject it entirely and absolutely, and will not acknowledge it, simply because it does not please us to be loved.
— Thomas Merton
He is heard only when we hope to hear Him, and if, thinking our hope to be fulfilled, we cease to speak, His silence ceases to be vivid and becomes dead, even though we recharge it with the echo of our own emotional noise.
— Thomas Merton
Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.
— Kathleen Norris
According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.
— Kay Arthur
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
— CS Lewis
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
— CS Lewis
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
— CS Lewis
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
— CS Lewis
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
— CS Lewis
It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.
— Calvin Coolidge
For news of a mother's heart, watch her child's face.
— Camron Wright