Quotes about Affection

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

I was in love with loving.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Of what good is it, in the ultimate sense, to shower someone with affection in the absence of a robust confidence in Jesus and the courage to proclaim him as the sinner's only hope?

May God so work in our hearts that our faith is affectionate and our passion is principled.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

God bless you, my dear!

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.