Affections Quotes

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Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. — Swami Vivekananda
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object,… — Richard Sibbes
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul. — Richard Sibbes
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heartâ€™s affections and the truth of the Imagination â€“ What the imagination seizes as Beauty… — John Keats
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to… — John Calvin
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions,… — Thomas Browne
When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were… — Russell D. Moore
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about… — Carrie Brownstein
A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in… — Paul Washer
Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the… — William Wordsworth
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and… — Matt Chandler
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siÃ¨cle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? — William Shakespeare
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. — Mary Astell

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