Quotes about Emotions

Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling.

What is shame? God identifies it. God experienced it. You are not alone.

God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.

When your emotions feel muted or always low, when you are unable to experience the highs and lows you once did, the important question is not "How can I figure out what I have done wrong?" but it is, "Where do I turn—or, to whom do I turn—when I am depressed?" Some turn toward their beds and isolation; others turn toward other people. Some turn away from God; others turn toward him.

A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.

Why didn't you just pray by faith?" He taught me one of the most important lessons of prayer: that prayer depended on God and his promises, not my own quixotic emotions.

At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us.

When our worship is true, we experience joy, peace, love, and hope, even in difficult situations. When our worship is false, and the things we desire are unattainable or impotent, we can be grieved, bitter, depressed, angry, or fearful. Our emotions usually mean something, and it is wise to ask, "What are my emotions saying?" "What are they pointing to?

Love is the opposite of anger. Anger is disdain, hatred, and contempt.

Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.

If you are casual about anger and unprepared, you will lose and so will those around you.

Anger shows contempt. You are better than they. You are smarter, more righteous—you are above and they are below. Anger tears down. It kills relationships.