Quotes About Emotions

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. —KING SOLOMON (PROV. 4:23)

You will discover that freedom comes only as you bring unsanctified and unholy places under the rule of Jesus Christ, so that he can possess these very places deeply and truly. Therefore, part of this first step involves sanctifying the place of bondage to Christ. If it's emotional (as with rage) you sanctify your emotions; if it involves addiction you sanctify your obsession, and your body.

If I've lost the capacity for, and the enjoyment of relationship, I know things are deeply off in my soul.

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

God can handle your anger, disappointment, even bitterness. But walking away from Jesus is forsaking your only hope out of the heartache.

I am careful how I bring my emotion, or my experience, to the need at hand. I don't ignore them; but neither do I let them dictate what I am praying. Our testimonies of previous results are valuable, and they may come into play. But this is a very dynamic story we find ourselves in, and as we mature in prayer, let us be careful not to assume this situation is exactly the same as the one before. You will want to ask God what needs to be prayed.

The mind is a faculty, and a magnificent one at that. But the heart is the dwelling place of our true beliefs.

Given the right plan, everything in life can be managed . . . except your heart.

The human heart is village sized.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel. I can feel. No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine. It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe - so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Just because you can't express your feelings it doesn't mean they're not deep.

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's how men cry.

As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

When you love me, it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.

The thing I felt most clearly, when the first corner was turned, was that I had escaped. Obscurer, but no less strong, was the feeling that she loved me more than I loved her, and that consequently I had in some indefinable way won.

Love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted.