Quotes about Emotions

did with his psalms, use prayer to ventilate vertically. Tell God your frustrations. Cry out to him. He's never surprised or upset by your anger, hurt, insecurity, or any other emotions. So tell him exactly how you feel.

Think reds, orange, yellows, greens, purple, blue — the darker and deeper the colors, the better they are for you.

The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart.

What you do with your body sets the tone for everything else. Physical health influences your mental health, your spiritual health, your emotional health, your relational health, and even your financial health.

The Psalms show us what healthy spiritual life looks like. You name everything that's happening inside of you. You give it language and expression, You articulate exactly what the desolation feels like. If you don't drag it up and give it words, then it's buried down in your being somewhere. And it will come out in other ways. Unhealthy, destructive ways. You'll keep it bottled up. And you'll be miserable.

Be honest about your joy.

When you're fighting, it's absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they're trying to figure it out just like you are.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

Even the slightest tremors of bitterness can block the flow of love.

So when people say they don't believe in hell and they don't like the word "sin," my first response is to ask, "Have you sat and talked with a family who just found out their child has been molested?

The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.

The world is free to be a world. It's free to be beautiful and safe, and it's free to break your heart in a thousand ways. That free.