Jerry Bridges Quotes

As you go through life, don’t let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of God’s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I've learned that showing your emotions can work against you and that you need to have a business-like attitude to observe things with a cool head.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.