Quotes about Emotions

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

Emotions are like a river flowing out of one's heart. Form is like the riverbanks. Without them the river runs shallow and dissipates on the plain. But banks make the river run deep. Why else have humans for centuries reached for poetry when we have deep affections to express? The creation of a form happens because someone feels a passion. How ironic, then, that we often fault form when the real evil is a dry spring.

Emotions for God that do not spring from seeing God cannot honor God.

Spiritual emotions, which are more than physical, can have chemical effects, and not just the reverse.

Emotionalism can also assume that heightened feelings are the infallible sign that God is present. They're not. The emotions that singing is meant to evoke are responses to the truths we're singing about God—his glory, his greatness, and his goodness.

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Those without enough love experience rage, but love drives rage away.