461 quotes found
“We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.”
“Truth could never be wholly contained in words.”
“Sometimes happiness can come very simply, purely, merely if one is ready to embrace it with open arms.”
“Pain is like a healing emotional fever.”
“(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.”
“I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.”
“The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.”
“Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others.”
“It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)”
“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of cult...”
“You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?”
“Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.”
“Worry is the only emotion that never leaves a human's heart.”
“But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable musi...”
“Philosophers in the scholastic tradition have usually defined intellectual certitude as a proposition in which we have no reasonable 'fear' of the opposite proposition turning out to be the truth. ...”
“People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.”
“These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.”
“I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.”
“Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.”
“My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful.”
