Our Affections Quotes

33 quotes by 28 authors

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. — Thomas Aquinas
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. — Gloria Estefan
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He… — John Piper
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think that… — C. JoyBell C.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens
Satan has used deception to win our affections, influence our choices and destroy our lives. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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