Peter Kreeft Quotes

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Which of us can control his feelings?

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Anger is an emotion, not a compass.

I think anger is a good thing.

When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.

I really don't get angry.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.