Quotes about Endearment

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

I love you, Jade. I have for a long time, and I'm sure not going to stop now."

I accept you and love you and always will.

His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core—which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love.

Abba is the word that Jesus used to connote safety and endearment. It is actually a child's word, closest to Papa or Daddy. But unfortunately, it suffers today from centuries of being heard (and used) inside patriarchal cultures, implicitly validating a hierarchical worldview.

Hi, dumplin'. Where your socks?" Marie seldom called Pecola the same thing twice, but invariably her epithets were fond ones chosen from menus and dishes that were forever uppermost in her mind.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.