“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the
stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's
Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The
gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely
attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did
not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive
antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will
of His Father for congruent speech and action.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging