Quotes about Affections

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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him — and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone — Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion — William Wilberforce, Real Christianity
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. — Jonathan Edwards
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affecti — Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the o — Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the o — Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think — C. JoyBell C.
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 — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Find someone who loves you more than you love them. — Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
But no, now I see I never meant to Ben what Ben meant to me. If there was anything I said which resonated in return, he — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts. — Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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 roo — Timothy J. Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
Technology, hardware, and capital can be copied easily. What can't be copied easily is the culture and human capacity th — Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is h — John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
We need to care about beauty and not just the utility of our products because people are not only rational but also emot — Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions o — Jonathan Edwards
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and wil — Jonathan Edwards
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin. — Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith