Quotes about Emotions

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Hearts are made to be broken.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.

If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural emotions—I have to feed His sheep. We will not be delivered or released from His commission to us. Beware