The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.
A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.
The more merit, the less affection.
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.