Affection Quote by George Eliot

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

— George Eliot

“In the midst of our pain-filled conversation, I recognized that we were sitting in the sacred, the holy. We had brushed against the eternal,…

— Kate McCord

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and…

— H. Rider Haggard

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of…

— Edward Norris Kirk

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

“It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil, divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it, single,…

— Virginia Woolf

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

— Elie Wiesel

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However wrong we…

— Henri Barbusse

“Because of the Resurrection, our natural reaction must be to get past our emotional reactions as quickly as possible and reflect on what happened…

— Megan McKenna

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of…

— John Calvin

“I am not a churchgoing man. Strangled in the vines of form and choked with ritual Christians, Sunday service held no appeal for me…

— Randall Robinson