Quotes About Emotions

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

How does it happen that a person with whom you have shared your most intimate moments—greatest love, greatest pain, joy, also grief—can become a stranger?

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul.

The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.

Staying angry at someone who has hurt you is like taking poison hoping that your enemy will die.

You can always tell God how you feel and ask for His help and strength, but talking about negative feelings just to be talking does no good at all. The Bible instructs us not to speak with idle (inoperative, nonworking) words (see Matt. 12:36). If negative feelings persist, asking for prayer or seeking advice is a good thing, but once again I want to stress that talking just to be talking is useless.

If someone hurts you, cry a river, then build a bridge and get over it. Unknown

We can't control what other people do and how they decide to treat us, but we can control our response to them. Don't let other people's behavior control you. Don't let them steal your joy; remember that your anger won't change them, but prayer can.

I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.

Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

God has given you the spirit of self-control and you can choose what you will think about any situation (2 Timothy 1:7). You can also choose to do what you know is right no matter how you feel at the moment. Dale Carnegie said, "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

There are many emotions we have to resist, but happiness is not one of them! So go ahead and be as happy as you can possibly be.

I will say positive, hopeful things no matter how I feel.

I would like to suggest that you take responsibility for your joy and never again give anyone else the job of keeping you happy. You can control what you do, but you cannot control what other people do. So you may be unhappy a lot of the time if you depend on them as your source of joy. The psalmist David said that he encouraged himself in the Lord, and if he can do it, then we can do it too.

two of them together affect you emotionally and turn into moods and attitudes. If you truly want to be in a good mood on a regular basis, you can start by choosing to think about things that will generate good emotions instead of bad ones.

We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.

Our mouth gives expression to what we think, feel, and want. Our mind tells us what we think, not necessarily what God thinks. Our will tells us what we want, not what God wants. And our emotions tell us what we feel, not what God feels. As our soul is purified, it is trained to carry God's thoughts, desires, and feelings; then we become a mouthpiece for the Lord!

he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love