Affection Quote by Richard Sibbes

“A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.” quote by Richard Sibbes — Download Open image

“A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.”

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

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A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

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Affection! Affection is false.

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