“You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature. —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.”
“Do you really feel like this or do you think you ought to feel like this?”
“People are often worried. They are told they ought to love God. They cannot find any such feeling in themselves. What are they to do? The answer is the same as before. Act as if you did. Do not sit trying to manufacture feelings. Ask yourself, ‘If I were sure that I loved God, what would I do?’ When you have found the answer, go and do it.”
“First feelings are always the most natural”
“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”
“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”