Quotes about Affection

Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold.

Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar" (Psalm 118:27). You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents—burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose—the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God.

His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

Love gives you eyes.

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’