Feelings?

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I think others here have done a very good job of responding.

I don’t know if anyone has said this yet, but I would like to add that another problem with relying too much on feelings is that, for example in your situation, there may come a time when you experience a dry spell, and when you don’t get those feelings when in prayer, and when you may have no feelings at all, or even have negative feelings regarding your spirituality. In these times it is just as important to continue in prayer. In fact, when those good feelings aren’t there, this is the most important time to keep in prayer, because that is what builds your faith.
 
Snip “I do believe we need to be obediant even if we dont feel like it but thats not the same thing.
Doing the right thing is something we/I should do whether the feeling is there or not” snip
 
I’m not sure you are describing “feelings,” or emotions, as much as you might be hearing/experiencing the Holy Spirit.

Emotions such as anger, sadness, loneliness, even happiness, are undependable and difficult to control. They come and go, and change and shift, seemingly no matter what we desire. As human beings, emotions are a part of us but we should not run our lives chasing our emotions. Feelings aren’t facts.

Of course we wouldn’t be human without them, but we are called to live out more than our simple “feelings.”

Also, our language is imprecise or at least people use the word “feelings” in place of other, more correct words: “I feel that you aren’t listening to me.” No. “I believe that you aren’t listening to me.” “I feel that he will make a good candidate.” No. “I think that he will make a good candidate.” See what I mean?
 
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CCC:
PART THREE
LIFE IN CHRIST

SECTION ONE
MAN’S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT

CHAPTER ONE
THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

ARTICLE 5
THE MORALITY OF THE PASSIONS

1762 The human person is ordered to beatitude by his deliberate acts: the passions or feelings he experiences can dispose him to it and contribute to it.

I. PASSIONS

1763 The term “passions” belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil.

1764 The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man’s heart the source from which the passions spring.40

1765 There are many passions. The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. The apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it.

1766 "To love is to will the good of another."41 All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good. Only the good can be loved.42 Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good."43

II. PASSIONS AND MORAL LIFE

1767 In themselves passions are neither good nor evil. They are morally qualified only to the extent that they effectively engage reason and will. Passions are said to be voluntary, "either because they are commanded by the will or because the will does not place obstacles in their way."44 It belongs to the perfection of the moral or human good that the passions be governed by reason.45

1768 Strong feelings are not decisive for the morality or the holiness of persons; they are simply the inexhaustible reservoir of images and affections in which the moral life is expressed. Passions are morally good when they contribute to a good action, evil in the opposite case. The upright will orders the movements of the senses it appropriates to the good and to beatitude; an evil will succumbs to disordered passions and exacerbates them. Emotions and feelings can be taken up into the virtues or perverted by the vices.

1769 In the Christian life, the Holy Spirit himself accomplishes his work by mobilizing the whole being, with all its sorrows, fears and sadness, as is visible in the Lord’s agony and passion. In Christ human feelings are able to reach their consummation in charity and divine beatitude.

1770 Moral perfection consists in man’s being moved to the good not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of the psalm: "My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God."46

IN BRIEF

1771 The term “passions” refers to the affections or the feelings. By his emotions man intuits the good and suspects evil.

1772 The principal passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger.

1773 In the passions, as movements of the sensitive appetite, there is neither moral good nor evil. But insofar as they engage reason and will, there is moral good or evil in them.

1774 Emotions and feelings can be taken up in the virtues or perverted by the vices.

1775 The perfection of the moral good consists in man’s being moved to the good not only by his will but also by his “heart.”
 
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