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Affections Quotes by Richard Sibbes
- Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of…
- 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…
- If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.
- 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,…
- A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.
More Affections Quotes
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte
- If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and… — Charles Dickens
- The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving
- Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in… — William Gurnall
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of… — Thomas Jefferson
- In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade!… — Stonewall Jackson
- A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on… — Roberto Burle Marx
- Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I… — Thomas a Kempis
- One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for… — Sigmund Freud
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin
- When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller