Quotes about Affection

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

I'm glad my first date is with you, Nate," she said as we started out of the house. "In a lot of ways, it feels like coming home." "I was thinking the same thing.

Is it any wonder that I loved my regiment?

By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

Whoever loves much, does much...

Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God.

Love willeth to be raised up, and not to be held down by any mean thing. Love willeth to be free and aloof from all worldly affection, lest its inward power of vision be hindered, lest it be entangled by any worldly prosperity or overcome by adversity. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing loftier, nothing broader, nothing pleasanter, nothing fuller or better in heaven nor on earth, for love was born of God and cannot rest save in God above all created things.