#emotions

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#faith #god #prayer #sufferings #faith

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#emotions #forbidden #grew #home #i

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. ↗

— Peter Davison

#contact #difficult #emotions #own #people

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#course #emotion #emotions #escape #expression

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#business #emotions #express #feelings #find

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. ↗

— John Travolta

#any #birth #emotions #goes #pain

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#emotions #ever #forgot #i #i think

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#different #different emotions #emotions #going #many

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#any #create #emotions #feel #fuel

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#emotions #entangled #his #man #memory