Feelings - christiansquoting.org.uk

Dom't rely on feelings. Remember Isaac.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body. - THOMAS ADAMS

The lexicon of pussyfooting is familiar. On its title page should appear the motto: `Never say, "I think," which is obsolete; always say, "I feel," as in, "I feel that the Treasurer has been dipping into the till"; then, if you are wrong, you haven't said anything. --Jacques Barzun _The House of Intellect_ (1959), Chap. III, "Conversation, Manners, and the Home"

Feelings and me have an understanding. They try to bother me and I don't let them.- Andy Dalziel, in Dalziel and Pascoe, BBC TV. 19 Nov 2001

The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?)

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.-- William James

[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him. C.S. Lewis --The Problem of Pain

I think there is a scriptural distinction between faith and feeling, grace and comfort....The degree of the one is not often the just measure of the other.
John Newton ,letter 16.4.1772

He who looks upon Christ through frames and feelings is like one who sees the sun on the water, and so sees it quivering and moving as the water moves. But he that looks upon him in the glass of his word by faith, sees him forever the same. -- J. T. Nottidge

For there be many Christians most like unto young sailors, who think the shore and the whole land doth move, when the ship and they themselves are moved; just so, not a few do imagine that God moveth and saileth and changeth places, because their giddy souls are under sail, and subject to alteration, to ebbing and flowing. But 'the foundation of the Lord abideth sure'. God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you. - Samuel Rutherford, Letter I. To LADY KENMURE ANWOTH, July 27, 1628

Measure not God's love and favour 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 manifestation of the light thereof.--Richard Sibbes

I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense -- first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur... Charles Simeon (1759-1836)

"Alas," says one, "I do not feel as I once did." Well, dear friend, it may be that you make some mistake in reference to your own experience. When the passion of love was first lighted in your breast, there was, as it were, a blaze of the match, the paper, and the wood, although the coals had not yet ignited. Yours was then the flush of joy, but not the vehement heat. Now your heart is all on fire like a solid ruby. There is much more heat, though there is less blaze.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Vol. 8 [1862], Pg. 341