emotion

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn:Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen or excessive diaphoresis; anger may be manifested by a generalized muscle tightness or a clenching of the jaw; sexual arousal may be noted by a tingling of the loins or piloerection; and sadness may be felt by conjunctival injection or heaviness of the chest.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there's no running away. You can't escape it and you can't hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a swan dive into a bottle. Sooner or later you'll have to take a breath, let the pain rush in and get to the other side like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.

And this love between Henry and Fora . . . at first, it was a small, uncertain thing, like the glow of the morning sunos the horizon. And then it was its own wild animal, bucking against the world and anything that threatened it, so hot it could burn and sometimes did. And then it was quiet, as quiet as a snowfall, covering everything, certain of its place, even as it was certain it could not last forever.

Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

What happened to you? When did you stop believing in yourself? In your gift? In what you deserve?

Emotion is the unseen transported on the unseen effecting everything".

When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you.

I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.

To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles