Quotes about Affection

Spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

My husband and I live for our pets, or I can say that I do.

Maybe we can't have everything we want in this relationship, Susanna." He bent his lips to her ears and whispered, "But we have this ball and tonight, you are my queen.

He was loved. He loved in return. Oh, what a man could accomplish when empowered by such knowledge.

Humility is a magnet for His affection.

Love isn't love just because someone receives it or reciprocates," Coral said. "Loving someone who doesn't love you in return is perhaps the greatest kind of love. Sacrificial. Without demand or condition.

Everyone, everything, needed love.

Humility is a magnet for God's affection,