Quotes about Affection

Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them. But every time you do something for the glory of God, you will know God's peace in your heart and find rest there.

Dorotheus writes: "Don't look for the affection of your neighbor. He who looks for it is troubled when he does not get it. You yourself, however, have to give witness to the love for your neighbor and to offer him rest, and thus you will bring your neighbor to love.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, I love you, too.

One thing is becoming clear to me: God became flesh for us to show us that the way to come in touch with God's love is the human way, in which the limited ad partial affection that people can give offers access to the unlimited and complete love that God has poured into the human heart. God's love cannot be found outside this human affection, even when that human affection is tainted by the brokenness of our time.

The only remedy for love is to love more.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

It always does what is best for others and can empower us to face the greatest of problems." (love)

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.