Affections Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Affections

Affections Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Affections quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

If you'd just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you'd be better off accidentally than you've ever been on purpose! — Andrew Wommack

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love. — Ann Radcliffe

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections. — J.C. Ryle

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination. — David Hume

Necessity is very often the mother of romance. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ... — Socrates

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up. — William Jenkyn

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin. — Jen Pollock Michel

The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. — Benjamin

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god. — Charles Spurgeon

In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by. — Samuel Rutherford

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first. — Matthew Henry

Love? His affections do not that way tend — William Shakespeare

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. — Lew Wallace

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there. — Bob Hope

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him at all. — Jane Austen

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God. — Timothy Keller

Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don't last! — DeBorrah K. Ogans

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life ... — Francis Bacon

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. — Alfred Armand Montapert

It's hard to play the enigmatic prince of romance when the object of your affections gets to watch you shit into the sea twice a day. — Mark Lawrence

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. — Jonathan Edwards

To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man. — Thomas A Kempis

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. — John Sterling

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love. — Timothy Keller

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. — Benjamin Disraeli

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. — Jonathan Edwards

Woman has nothing but her affections,
and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. — Florence Nightingale

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try. — Kiera Cass

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control. — Jeffrey R. Holland

We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship. — John Piper

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections. — David Platt

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. — Richard Steele

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. — Victor Hugo

I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections. — John O'Donohue

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. — Swami Vivekananda

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. — Mary Wollstonecraft

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. — Phillips Brooks

There is nothing but death
Our affections can sever,
And till life's latest breath
Love shall bind us for ever. — James Gates Percival

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. — Joseph Addison

Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections. — Gary Rohrmayer

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. — William Ralph Inge

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. — John Keats

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul. — Ellen G. White

Love is the piety of the affections. — Theodore Parker

Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections. — Thomas Watson

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cherish my childish loves
the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. — George Eliot

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. — Archibald Alexander

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson

Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity. — Joanne Madeline Moore

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa

It was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many. — Virginia Woolf

A woman's life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can. — J.C. Ryle

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? — William Shakespeare

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. — Fanny Fern

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world. — Billy Graham

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. — Daniel Boone

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
They scorn the best I can do to relate them. — Walt Whitman

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. — Joseph Marie, Baron De Gerando

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

When you speak of new ties and fresh affections, think you that any can replace those who are gone? — Mary Shelley

His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee

... mischief, ... arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections. — Karen Swallow Prior

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal ... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier

Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death. — Thomas Watson

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere. — Rose Gordon

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — Laurence Sterne

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. — Thomas Aquinas

My affections truly were not engaged. It is only my pride that is hurt, not my heart. — Anna Elliott

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention. — Leonard Ravenhill

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra