Quotes about Emotions

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Hearts are made to be broken.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.