emotion

Do feelings make one weak?

Do you picture a strong leader as someone who feels deeply or someone who is stoic?

Does your church or community value the intellect or the emotional more highly?

Do you?

What does that say about what is means to be truly human?

“The capacity to be affected emotionally is not only characteristic of weak people but also very strong ones.  Churchill, Socrates, and the apostle Paul were all strong people of deep feeling… The ’emotional person’ is weak not because he has emotions, but because he has such poor ones, or such a limited repertoire of them.  He lacks personal integration and depth not because he feels strongly, but because his feelings are erratic and chaotic, or because he feels strongly about the wrong things, or because he lacks something that ought to be present in addtion to his strong feelings.”  –Robert Roberts