When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Love is trembling happiness.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I dote on his very absence.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

There is moderation even in excess.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.