Quotes about Feeling
Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.
— Mother Angelica
God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feeling, but only if it relies on the Word of God.
— Martin Luther
Romanticism is a philosophy of intuitive agreement. In real love, there is no need tiresomely to articulate or spell things out. When two people belong together, there is simply — at long last — a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.
— Alain de Botton
Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.
— Philip Yancey
Hope could be, and often was, a dogged and deliberate choice when the world seemed dark. It depended not on a feeling about the way things were or the way they were moving, but on faith, faith in the One God.
— NT Wright
Tom, remember my last letter, when I talked about guilt? I haven't forgotten any of those thoughts; as a matter of fact, they are still churning in my head, and I don't know where they will eventually carry me. Since I last wrote, I did come up with one challenging proposition about guilt: that it could be a fact, and not just a feeling.
— Frank Peretti
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
— John Piper
God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling.
— Ravi Zacharias
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
— Henri Nouwen
Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.
— Joyce Meyer
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
— St. Augustine
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