Oswald Chambers Quotes

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.

The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.

If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

You can't always trust your emotions. You can't always trust your feelings. And I'm not talking about pain but I'm talking about more about life issues where something happens to you or somebody says something to you or somebody said nothing to you and you're waiting for them to say something to you.

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.