Quotes about Affection

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

taken care of." Sara gathered the child into her

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

Spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.