Quotes about Emotions

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs! 2

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.

Faith, not feelings, pleases God.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'