Affections

There is the world, the vast, powerful world, of the passions, purified by exhaustive cultivation into what we call the affections of a higher life. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

If wanting to replace her mother in her father's affections is all she had going on, she'd be one lucky girl. ❋ Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon (2010)

But this time the object of his affections is resisting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ART: Tim Kennedy “On the Face of It”: The object of Reggie†™ s affections is compromised†¦ when his own beloved face gets a zit! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The scholar suddenly transferred his affections from the Greeks 'phalanx to the Roman legions and began with the first verse of Virgil's "Æneid." ❋ Frederick Palmer (1915)

At present the lord of my affections is one of these bull terriers. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)

Human nature is very swift in coming to conclusions in matters in which that strange mixture we call the affections are involved; perhaps because, although the conclusion is not altogether a pleasing one, the affections, at any rate in the beginning, are largely dependent on the senses. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Why do they put all their treasure into that one bag they call their affections? ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Meek in affections and feelings; quiet in words, countenance, and actions [Bengel]. in the sight of God -- who looks to inward, not merely outward things. of great price -- The results of redemption should correspond to its costly price (1Pe 1: 19). ❋ Unknown (1871)

Through time I have come to know the love that dwells on high, at sight of which the other love vanishes, and I have given myself wholly to the one, and weaned my affections from the other. ❋ Unknown (1855)

However contradictory it may seem, to contracted minds, I firmly believe that the strongest spell which can be placed upon the human affections, is a consciousness of freedom. ❋ Unknown (1799)

Sophia places her affections, is distinguished by the ardency of a reciprocal attachment, the nicest sense of honour, an enlightened mind, with a generous and undaunted spirit. ❋ Unknown (1797)

'I know you, my dear Mandlebert, to be, by nature, penetrating and minute in your observations; which, in your general commerce with the world, will protect both your understanding and your affections from the usual snares of youth: But here – to be even scrupulous is not enough; to avoid all danger of repentance, you must become positively distrustful.' ❋ Unknown (1796)

Christ's way of gaining the will and affections is by enlightening the understanding and bringing that unfeignedly to assent to divine truths. ❋ Unknown (1721)

For thus the connection stands -- An angry and hasty spirit is soon provoked to ill things by afflictions, and errors and ill opinions become prevalent through the workings of our own vile and vain affections; but the renewing grace of God and the word of the gospel teach us to subdue these: Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, v. 19. ❋ Unknown (1721)

God will be behind with none of his people in affections or assurances. ❋ Unknown (1721)

By a singular perversity, it seemed to him that every one of those passing "affections" -- he too, alas! at times -- was for ever trying to be, to assert ITSELF, to maintain its isolated and petty self, by a kind of practical lie in things; although through every incident of its hypothetic existence it had protested that its proper function was to die. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

I had touched them a little on the feelings - 'affections' - ❋ Unknown (1853)