Quotes about Emotions
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
— William Faulkner
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
— William Goldman
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
— William James
My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.
— David Brainerd
It hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart!
— David Brainerd
We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
— Ann Voskamp
Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.
— Martin Luther
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
— Andy Stanley
No man hates God without first hating himself.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.
— Jerry Bridges