Quotes about Emotions

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional idol... if you get more excited about material things than the simple yet profound fact that your sin was nailed to the cross by the sinless Son of God, then you're bowing down to Tammuz.

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Our response to an offense determines our future.