“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life” KnowsMenSoulHomeBodySpiritualUnderstandingMemoriesSinLordEternalAffectionVicesFlightGod LoveMeritDemonGood LifeSacramentsSweetnessEverlastingIncentivesKnowing GodEnlighteningEternal Life Author:Thomas Aquinas
“O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.” BodyChristCharityAffectionFulfillmentMysticalSacramentsUnspeakable Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.” KindBodyEarthVirtueStonesUnionsAffectionMutualGravityMagneticConjunctions Author:Johannes Kepler
“Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.” TwoSoulBodyMightFormDesirePleasureThirdsAffectionDuesSeatsEntityDistressAversionEmployingFear And Courage Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)
“The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.” SoulWholeBodySpiritJesusUnitedGraceHolyUnionsProfoundFruitAffectionHoly SpiritTransformedMarvelous Author:Pope Francis
“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.” KnowsWorldWellsTwoStatesMomentsBodyChangeThis WorldTasteAffectionPurityMisfortunesPerpetualTangledFluxYarn Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau