Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
And I realize just how beautiful you are to me and how great you affections are for me~Jesus(: — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Your Beauty Blinded my eyes, I can't see know one except you... your Love felt my Heart, I won't have Love affections… — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them,… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
“I will love you, I will honor you, I will give you my affections. I will walk with no other partner, and… — Annie Wald Copy Share Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Wake up one morning with a man you had thought you'd spend your life with, and realize, a rock in your gut,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“It was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“All kinds of beauty do not captivate love. There is a kind that only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my… — John Britton Copy Share Image
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
