Life on Planet Earth on Expressing Emotions

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Brennan Manning
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To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with th...
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Harry Potter’s Dementors & Depression
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Mark Meynell
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Isaiah 40:29-31, Job 3:25-26, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, John 16:33, Psalm 34:17-18
When J. K. Rowling created the Harry Potter universe, she naturally drew on her own experiences to flesh it out. This is true even for such alarming creatures as ‘dementors’. These are soulless beings...
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Genesis 4:3–8 , Exodus 32:19–20 , Proverbs 14:29, Matthew 5:22, Ephesians 4:26–27, Psalm 37:8
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything onto which it is poured.
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Writing Angry
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Exodus 22:19, Numbers 16:, Matthew 21:12-13, Ephesians 4:26-27, Psalm 7:9
“I never work better” Martin Luther once said, “than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding ...
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George Herbert
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Ecclesiastes 3:1, Romans 8:22, Job 14:1, James 1:2-4, Psalm 130:1-2
I cried when I was born and every day shows why.
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Emotions are Divine: Why Pastors Need Biblical Permission to Feel
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David Lamb
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John 11:35, Psalm 5:5, Psalm 6:1, Psalm 78:58, Psalm 78:40, Psalm 18:19, Psalm 25:6, Psalm 5:7, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 22:23, Isaiah 15:5, Luke 15:null, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 42:24, 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Samuel 1:11-12, 2 Kings 8:11-12, 2 Kings 22:18-20, Mark 14:72, John 20:11, Acts 20:37, Revelation 5:4
When the Professor Weeps: A Personal Story About ten years ago, I was teaching a course on the psalms for my seminary students in the midst of a personal health crisis. It wasn’t in my notes, but I ...
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Richard Plass and James Cofield
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- Emotions
- Recognition
Not every emotion needs expression, but every emotion needs recognition.
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Giovanni Frazzetto
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- Emotions
- Mind
Emotions make our minds speak to each other. They are the most faithful reproduction of our inner worlds, broadcast externally in the expression of our faces.
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Toni Morrison
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- Emotions
- Feelings
I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got.
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Juvenile Emotions
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Leonard Sweet
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- Emotions
What Jesus also didn’t do was wear his emotions on his sleeve. I brought my kids up with a mantra: Don’t litter your food; don’t litter your mood. In Edward Docxs Self Help, one of the most interestin...
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David Brooks
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- Life
The key to a well-lived life is to have trained the emotions to send the right signals and to be sensitive to their subtle calls.
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Louisa May Alcott
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"I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so."
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Jesus’ Emotions
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G. Walter Hansenin
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John 11:35, Matthew 9:36, Luke 19:41-42, John 2:15-16, Mark 3:5, Isaiah 53:3-4
I am spellbound by the intensity of Jesus’ emotions: Not a twinge of pity, but heartbroken compassion; not a passing irritation, but terrifying anger; not a silent tear, but groans of anguish; not a w...
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John Ortberg
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- Emotions
Awareness of what I’m feeling generally brings the awareness that I am not my feelings. And then I can begin to see you more clearly and relate to you more intimately. It’s a little like shifting my f...
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P. D. James
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"Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel."
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Lori Gottlieb
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- Avoidance
- Emotional Stuffing
Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger.
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Jean Kilbourne
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- Emotions
- Advertising
We are surrounded by hundreds, thousands of messages every day that link our deepest emotions to products that objectify people and trivialize our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emoti...
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A Danger in Venting Your Anger
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Galatians 5:22-23, Colossians 3:8, Proverbs 16:32, Ephesians 7:9, Proverbs 15:1
We often speak of unexpressed anger with metaphors of explosive pressure. We are like “a ticking time bomb” or “a volcano.” We are “bottling it up.” And sometimes letting it out feels good—cathartic. ...
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Laughter as a Social Emotion
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Giovanni Frazzetto
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- Emotions
- Belonging
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Genesis 17:null, Genesis 18:12-15, Genesis 21:6-7, Ecclesiastes 3:4, Luke 6:21
Laughter is definitely a social expression of emotion rather than a solitary activity. We may occasionally laugh on our own in front of an amusing comedy, but laughter is mostly a social affair. When ...
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How To Express Authenticity
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Les and Leslie Parrott
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Romans 12:9, James 3:17, Matthew 12:34, Proverbs 20:11, 1 Samuel 16:7
How is genuineness expressed? Not in words. What you say to your partner is far less important than how you say it—with a smile, a shrug, a frown, or a glare. Consider this: nonverbal communication ac...
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Augustine of Hippo
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‘For my own way of expressing myself almost always disappoints me… I am saddened that my tongue cannot live up to my heart.’
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Helen Keller
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- Emotions
- Heart
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
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God Cares for Your Emotions (Psalm 139)
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Bill Gaultiere
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- Emotions
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Psalm 139:23, Psalm 139:null
By Bill Gaultiere Many Christians are stunted in their spiritual growth because they don’t understand or express their deep emotions and desires. As pastors, ministry leaders, caregivers, or parents...
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Loving God, we confess today: We don’t
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Austin D. Hill
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Ephesians 4:32, Psalm 51:10, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Matthew 22:37-39, Romans 5:8
Loving God, we confess today: We don’t even know what love truly is. We talk about love when we talk about favorite television shows and foods. We talk about love as if it happens to us. We describe l...
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Jim Carrey
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- Pain
- Brokenness
If we all acted the way we really felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.
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Dallas Willard
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Feelings are, with a few exceptions, good servants. But they are disastrous masters.
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Emotion and Reason
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David Brooks
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- Emotions
Reason and emotion are not separate and opposed. Reason is nestled upon emotion and dependent upon it. Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuation...
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Jennie Allen
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- Emotions
- Thought
I began to see a pattern at work in many of us. Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the be...
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Clay Scroggins
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Many of us tend to be passive with our thoughts and feelings. We treat them like they rule us, like they are in charge of us, and not the other way around. We forget that our thoughts and feelings are...
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Watchman Nee
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The more one probes the workings of an emotional life the more he will be convinced of its vacillation and undependability. No one should wonder that a child of God who walks by emotion rather than by...

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