VIII. True grace-filled feeling is different from false, delusional emotions, in that spiritual feeling is accompanied by the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temperament of Jesus Christ; it makes us more like Christ. In other words, spiritual emotions give birth to the same spirit of love, gentleness, quietness, forgiveness, and mercy that appeared in Christ. The evidence for this in scripture is abundant. In fact, the spirit we have just described might be called the very spirit of the gospel, the Christian