Quotes about Emotions

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

if we change the way we think, before long our thoughts change the way we feel.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart's tribute to the privilege to love.

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

Having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life. So many people try to get hold of their emotions, but they don't realize the emotions are usually regulated by the mind. If we don't start thinking differently, we will never feel differently.

Your injured heart will be protected by your doing what is right until you feel what is right.

Those who decide to be preoccupied with believing God over all their negative emotions and other feelings to the contrary will sooner or later discover that God delights in answered prayer, no matter how big those prayers become.

A joyful heart makes a face cheerful, but a sad heart produces a broken spirit. Proverbs 15:13

If you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. Jeremiah 13:17