“It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.” WantGivingReligionChurchEmotionSacrificeAdmirationAdoration Book:¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture Source: ¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture
“The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.” ArtImportantArtistCertainOrderEmotionQualitySacrificeIllusionAimDetailsPoeticInferiors Author:Gustave Flaubert
“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.” WantSometimesFacesForceEmotionViolenceSacrificeBecomingIntegritySickMedicineYour FaceInnate Author:Ariana Reines
“In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.” IfsWellsMeanEndsFeelingsChristianJesusLove IsEmotionSacrificeProduceEmotionalWillingNeighborContraryWell BeingRespondingCozy Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC. Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.