Affection Quotes - Page 8

• If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Persons, Suspicious

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Healthy, Tense, Confrontation

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• Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sweet, Thumbs, Keyboards

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• I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Receiving Love, Wife

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Brain

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Thinking, Connections

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102

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• She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

  John Irving

  Children, Expectations, Attention

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• Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

  Viggo Mortensen

  Hands, Expectations, Understanding

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• I never change, except in my affections.

  Oscar Wilde

  Never Change

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.149

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.

  Julian Young

  Real, Philosophy, Boredom

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

  Anthony Marra

  Letting Go, Running, Gratitude

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

  Kiera Cass

  Trying, Unattainable, Helping

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• I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Thinking, Air

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Eye, Home

  Charles Dickens (2003). “A Christmas Carol”, p.182, Broadview Press

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Single, Brother, Silence

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

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• No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Brother, Kindness

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Home, Humble

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Expression, Long

  Statement during trial, March 18, 1922.

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