“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensFeelingsGirlPresidentWhiteDiseaseAidsSavedHorriblePriestsAffectedTeenageEpidemicsTeenage GirlPta Author:David Levithan
“When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.” FeelingsColorPaintOilSavedThis DayTubesFourteenThirteen Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.” HeartFeelingsChristianJesusChristSinSorrowSavedWord Of GodHebrewPierceJesus Death Author:R. L. Hymers, Jr.
“Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say, "Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.” BelieveDoeSoulFeelingsOpportunityLostHellTearsSavedRejectionWeepingSaviourLost Opportunity Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.” WritingEnoughFeelingsKidsWifeStupidMy WifeAlcoholSavedEnjoyedGave UpDopeStupid Things Author:Stephen King
“Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.” EnoughMomentsFeelingsChallengesFoodCookingSavedHorribleMiserableCulinaryMediocrityDoomConsumingStasis Author:Julie Powell