Quotes about Emotional

What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it?

If the impulse to worship God and to adore Him in truth by the goodness and order of our own lives is nothing more than a transitory and emotional thing, that is our own fault. It is so only because we make it so, and because we take what is substantially a deep and powerful and lasting moral impetus, supernatural in its origin and in its direction, and reduce it to the level of our own weak and unstable and futile fancies and desires.

The root of all sin goes back to the garden of Eden. The result of Adam and Eve's disobedience was exile for them and all their descendants after them. Living in exile means living in a perpetual state of disconnection and separation that ultimately leads to death if not remedied. There are four aspects to exile: spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical.

Shared pain is more bearable.

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

No man can have true sympathy who has not been, in some measure at least, "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," but the sorrow and grief must have passed, must have ripened into a fixed kindness and habitual calm.

She's not mean. She's just hurt. An animal that's gentle and friendly growls when it's injured. Remember that when people act ugly toward you. They're usually in some kind of pain.

Trying to be patient with people without loving them is like expecting there to be heat without actually lighting the torch.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.