Quotes about Emotions

We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs! 2

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.

Faith, not feelings, pleases God.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.