Affections Quotes

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of… — Edmund Burke
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I donâ€™t care if people… — William S. Burroughs
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who… — Alfred Nobel
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their… — Nathanael Emmons
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections… — Richard Sibbes
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without. — Richard Sibbes
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does… — Khalil Gibran
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his… — Robert L. Reymond
Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called… — Henry Clarence Thiessen
If youâ€™d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, youâ€™d be better off accidentally than youâ€™ve ever been on purpose! — Andrew Wommack
In life, there are no perfect affections. — James Merrill
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular… — Joseph Butler
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the… — Matthew Simpson
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. — Florence Nightingale
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. — Fanny Fern
If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will… — John Owen
This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of… — Paul Washer

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