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Affection 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 (2007). “A Better Way to Pray: If Your Prayer Life is Not Working, Consider Changing Directions”, p.98, Harrison House Publishers

My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.204

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.41, Revell

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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

Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.238

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.373, NYU Press

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

Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.331

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

John Owen (1825). “On the nature ... of indwelling sin in believers”, p.199