Quotes about Feeling

Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will.

Heart" here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. "Heart" means not only (1) intuitive reason ("the heart has its reasons") and (2) will

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

Happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

You're assuming that love is a feeling. It isn't. It can involve feelings, but often it doesn't. Love acts out of faith, which rarely involves feelings. Love is action; it's deciding something is true and living out of that belief.

I thought that was beautiful because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul is saying something, something about freedom. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.

Love isn't a feeling; it's an attitude, it's actions. Like buying him the prayer shawl. Whether you feel anything or not, just do the loving thing.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?