True Feelings Quotes

“Waiting to feel before we act in obedience is a bad habit that bolsters our sinful emotions. Sinful beliefs and values only get stronger when we indulge our sinful feelings.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“Emotions are the reporters for the soul.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“God has a purpose for our feelings -- the good and the bad.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“Our hope is in Christ, who started this good work in the first place. He is at work, right now, creating godly emotions in our hearts, and he won’t stop until our lives are bursting with beautiful, passionate, true feelings.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“If we spend twenty minutes a day reading our Bibles, but the remaining twenty-three hours and forty minutes ruminating on unbiblical thoughts, then it is no wonder that our sinful beliefs and values are so stubborn and our sinful emotions so strong. Sinful ruminating can reverse the good effects of time spent in God’s Word. It slows our growth and keeps us stuck in the same sinful emotions. We can’t expect to grow godly emotions in the soil of our sinful ruminations, so if we struggle to change our beliefs and values, this bad habit is the place to start.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“The myth that “emotions are bad” puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren’t inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“If we want to get to the source of what we feel, we need to figure out what we believe and value.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“Our emotions don't necessarily tell us the facts about the situation, rather they tell us our interpretation of the facts.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“To do the opposite of what you feel may feel like the hardest thing to do, but it has an immediate effect.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

“Emotions aren't a hindrance to wise decision-making, but are central to the Christian life.”
― Carolyn Mahaney, True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions