Quotes about Emotions
Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.
- John Maxwell
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
- Martin Luther
The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.
- Jay-Z
He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.
- Philip Yancey
two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live out God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other people. . . . We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.
- Philip Yancey
So I'm trying, instead of shaming or pretending, to come to terms with my emotions, and bring them before God honestly. I have come to realize that I'm never going to stop having emotions, and probably strong emotions, because that is the way I'm wired.
- Philip Yancey
My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.
- Philip Yancey
Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.
- Philip Yancey
Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.
- Philip Yancey
When a couple encounters a crisis, it magnifies what's already present in the relationship.
- Philip Yancey