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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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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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Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: “These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself. The truth, even though I cannot...
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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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C. S. Lewis
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Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love ...
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An Emotional Reckoning
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Brené Brown
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In navigation, the term reckoning, as in dead reckoning, is the process of calculating where you are. To do that, you have to know where you’ve been and what factors influenced how you got to where yo...
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Watchman Nee
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But when the cross is working deeply a believer comes to know himself. He realizes how undependable are his ideas, feelings and desires.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarse...
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The Root of Anxiety
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J. P. Moreland
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What causes anxiety? I offer this list so you can engage in an exercise… genetic predispositions parenting (overprotective, overcontrollers, inconsistent responders) early childhood experiences tha...
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What is Marriage For?
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John Mark Comer
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One day we were out running errands. The radio in my car was playing in the background, and between songs there was an advertisement for an online dating service. The spokesman-doctor-expert guy was d...
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Toni Morrison
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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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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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Ann Voskamp
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Fear is what we feel—but brave is what we do.
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Rick Warren
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Proverbs 23:7, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Colossians 3:2, Matthew 22:37, Isaiah 26:3
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
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C. S. Lewis
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Galatians 5:13-14, John 13:1-17, Luke 10:25-37, 1 John 3:16-18, Romans 12:9-10, Philippians 2:3-4
Love is not an affection feeling, rather it’s a steady wish for the other’s good as far as it can be obtained.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Psalm 23:4, Philippians 3:13-14, Lamentations 3:22-23, Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:3-5
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
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Max Lucado
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Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
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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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Richard Sibbes
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Measure not God’s love and favor by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the ma...
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Mark Twain
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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Giovanni Frazzetto
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The word ‘empathy’ made its first appearance in the English language in 1909, as a translation of the German ‘Einfühlung’, in turn introduced by the German philosopher Robert Vischer, which means ‘fee...
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John Ortberg
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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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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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Daniel Amen and Lisa Routh
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- Stress
What you allow to occupy your mind will sooner or later determine your feelings, your speech and your actions. Thoughts . . . have a real impact on how you feel and behave.”
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June Price Tangney
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- Guilt
- Shame
One of the most hopeful and gratifying conclusions to come out of our 12 years of research on shame and guilt is that that notion of morality is wrong. Dead wrong. You don't have to feel really ba...
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Elisabeth Elliot
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It is Christ who is to be exalted, not our feelings. We will know Him by obedience, not by emotions. Our love will be shown by obedience, not by how good we feel about God at a given moment. "And...
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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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Elisabeth Elliot
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- Emotions
- Choices
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we...
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Emotions, Language, and the Experience of Homesickness
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Jen Pollock Michel
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Hebrews 11:13-16, 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, John 14:2-3, Revelation 21:3-4, Matthew 8:19-20, Luke 9:57-58
In her book Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home , Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the nature of home in a transient age. In this short excerpt, Michel focuses on the language associate...
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O Holy One, we call to you and name you
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O Holy One, we call to you and name you as eternal, ever-present, and boundless in love. Yet there are times, O God, when we fail to recognize you in the dailyness of our lives. Sometimes shame clench...