Faith and Feelings

I regard it as a great part of my calling in the ministry to emphasize the priority of the mind and the intellect in connection with the faith; but though I maintain that, I am equally ready to assert that the feelings, the emotions, the sensibilities obviously are very vital importance. We have been made in such a way that they play a dominant part of our makeup. Indeed, I suppose that one of the greatest problems in our life in this world, not only for Christians, but for all people is the right handling of our feelings and emotions. Oh, the havoc that is wrought in the tragedy, the misery and the wretchedness that are to be found in the world simply because people do not know how to handle their own feelings!  Man is so constituted that the feelings are in this very prominent position, and indeed there is a very good case for saying that perhaps the final thing which regeneration and the new birth do for us is just to put the mind and the emotions and the will and their right positions.-- Martin Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, pg 109