Quotes About Emotions

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality; listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God … Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice … However, we often turn a deaf ear — through emotional denial, distortion, or disengagement. We strain out anything disturbing in order to gain tenuous control of our inner world. We are frightened and ashamed of what leaks into our consciousness.

Our churches are filled with "leaking" Christians who have not treated their emotions as a discipleship issue.

no other person has ever lived your life. You may be wondering what will happen if you engage in this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, if you take seriously God's purpose for you to increasingly live faithfully out of the life he has given you.

ADOLESCENTES EMOCIONALES Tienden a estar siempre a la defensiva. Son amenazados y alarmados por las críticas. Mantienen una puntuación de lo que dan para después pedir algo a cambio. Tratan mal los conflictos, generalmente culpan, apaciguan, van con una tercera persona, hacen mala cara o ignoran el tema por completo. Se preocupan por ellos mismos. Tienen dificultad para escuchar verdaderamente el dolor, las desilusiones o necesidades de otra persona. Son críticos y sentenciosos.

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

Part of that likeness is to feel.

God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality.

Emotions are the language of the soul.

Grow me, I pray, into an emotionally mature adult through the Holy Spirit's power.

Allow yourself to experience the full weight of your feelings. Allow them without censoring them. Then you can reflect and thoughtfully decide what to do with them. Trust God to come to you through them. This is the first step in the hard work of discipleship.

The issue is not, by any means, to blindly follow our feelings, but to acknowledge them as a part of the way God communicates to us.

The emotionally unhealthy leader is someone who operates in a continuous state of emotional and spiritual deficit, lacking emotional maturity and a "being with God" sufficient to sustain their "doing for God." When

Using God to run from God Ignoring anger, sadness, and fear Dying to the wrong things Denying the impact of the past on the

Un líder emocionalmente enfermo es alguien que opera bajo un estado continuo de déficit emocional y espiritual, y al que le faltan la madurez emocional y el «estar con Dios» lo suficiente como para sostener su «hacer para Dios».

Your shadow is the accumulation of untamed emotions, less-than-pure motives and thoughts that, while largely unconscious, strongly influence and shape your behaviors. It is the damaged but mostly hidden version of who you are.

To feel is to be human. To minimize or deny what we feel is a distortion of what it means to be image bearers of God. To the degree that we are unable to express our emotions, we remain impaired in our ability to love God, others, and ourselves well. Why? Because our feelings are a component of what it means to be made in the image of God. To cut them out of our spirituality is to slice off an essential part of our humanity.

Our self-image soars with a compliment and is devastated by a criticism.

To feel is to be human. To minimize or deny what we feel is a distortion of what it means to be image bearers of God. To the degree that we are unable to express our emotions, we remain impaired in our ability to love God, others, and ourselves well.

Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice.

It has been said that the real measure of our sense of self is when we are with our parents for more than three days. At that point we need to ask ourselves how old we feel. Have we gone back to our patterns of behaving more in line with our childhood, or have we broken free from our past to live in what God has for us now?

In the Psalms, we see that he holds nothing back, freely pouring out his fears, despair, anger, and shame.

Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.