Emotions
215 quotes: 44 by Keith Craft, 171 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Emotions
- Forgiveness creates a miraculous flow of peace because it breaks the dam of bitterness.
- What you fail to understand emotionally, you will eventually struggle with relationally.
- When you rule your spirit, your emotions stop ruling your future.
- Your emotional health determines whether you become an Energy Producer or an Energy Demander.
- Your emotions may explain you… but they were never meant to define you.
- Your life is not subject to your feelings, but all successful outcomes are the result of decisive action.
- Your thoughts create your emotions, and your emotions emit a frequency that shapes your future.
- When you have a gift that God wants you to use for the world it comes wrapped in pain.
- One of the greatest advantages of experiencing deep pain early in life, is it gives you clarity about what you don’t want, and gives you the opportunity to decide what you do want.
- When you know what your most important intelligence is, you can grow anything from the inside out, and nothing on the outside can stop you.
- We create many of our own heartbreaks because of our expectations. If you lower your expectations on others, you will lessen your own heartbreaks.
- Seek to believe INSIDE/OUT and what happens on the outside will not affect you on the inside as much.
- Transformation becomes possible when you decide what happens in the 18 inches of space between your head and your heart.
- You don't get to be happy without being healthy. You don't get to be healthy if you won't workout the stuff that makes you unhealthy.
- How we process things that happen to us on the inside, determines what Grows through us on the outside.
- Elevated Thought: Intimacy is the ONE THING that makes the happiness thing work. Our desire for happiness is really a desire for In-To-Me-See.
- When you honor the right things in your life, you will stress the wrong things out of your life.
- Big Thought: Peace is knowing God is with you and for you and will always work all things together for your good!
- Self-pity is a result of self-centeredness. Antidote: God-centered Generosity! You cannot feel sorry for yourself and genuinely care for others!
- When you get the Who, the What, the Why, the How, the When and the Where of Joy, you will HAVE the result that only Joy can bring.
- The greatest gift you can give anyone is a healthy you.
- Self-consciousness leads to self-pity. The best prescription for self-pity is to focus on the goodness of God and how to serve others.
- Anger is a God-given emotion to make you better.
- Practice the super-natural art of acting your way into a feeling rather than the natural instinct to feel your way into an action.
- There are two kinds of people in the world: those that handle their frustration and those that wish they did.
- Worry is the tension between the mind and the heart.
- You need to get out of your mind so you don't go out of your mind.
- True Joy is an intrinsic quality birthed by Love. It is a fruit of the spirit and is the precursor of Peace. It is evidenced by a confident assurance that is only found in God. It is the axis on which genuine happiness turns. In fact, genuine happiness is the by-product of True Joy. It is not contingent upon outward circumstances. It increases and gets stronger through adversity, because a Spirit of Joy is fueled by gratitude and is NEVER governed by loss. That is why Joy is the Supernatural remedy for any great tragedy.
- Whatever can hurt you the worst has the equivalent power to help you the most.
- Pain doesn't have to lead to sorrows.
- Wherever you go, go there with all of your heart.
- The more insecure a person is, the less willing they are to be interrupted.
- Conflict is the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.
- Wonder: the emotion that arouses awe and awfulness, curiosity and doubt, surprises and disappointments.
- Any success without JOY is the worst kind of failure.
- Discontentment is human because it's an inward reaction to an outward thing. It is a conclusive emotional response to the "see me" impossible.
- You can elevate your emotions from negative to positive when you elevate your thinking from fear to faith.
- Negative emotions evolve out of fear. Positive emotions evolve out of faith. Faith it until you make it!
- As you move forward today remember: Your feelings are not THE Truth. Choose to ACT your way into a feeling not feel your way into an action.
- "Guard your heart for out of it will flow the issues of your life. Prov.4:23 God never intended for you to "follow your heart!" Guard it by Leading it. When you lead your heart, you will guard it from having misperceptions that lead to misconceptions. Trust in the Lord with all your heart!"