Affections Quotes

273 quotes by 201 authors

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts… — George Gillespie
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it… — William Makepeace Thackeray
COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless… — Lancelot Andrewes
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,… — David Hume
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to… — William Hazlitt
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study… — Helen Keller
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with… — Henry David Thoreau
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed… — Abraham J. Williams
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections. — David Platt
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... — Francis Bacon
My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to… — Brother Lawrence
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of… — Mary Howitt
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin. — John Owen
The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which… — Thomas Boston
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass… — Robert Goolrick
What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God?… — David Platt

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