Quotes about Emotion

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

To know is not less than to feel.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

The heart was made to be broken.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction. If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places internally.