Satan who maximizes the role of emotions

‘Today, Satan captures us through our emotions.

He makes our emotions more important than they really are in our lives.

And he creates a lot of outrageous guilt about having certain emotions or not having them.

What Satan seeks is to maximize the role of emotions,

making them the foundation of our actions or changes in our character.  

Of course, the foundation is the share of insight, understanding and conviction of the truth.’

[Dallas Willard, “Renovation of the Heart”]