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“Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.”

Source: Killosophy

“A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.”

Ifs Giving Mind Firsts Helping Emotion Opinion Birth Affection Intimate Inseparable Giving Birth

Author:Paul Valery

“Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!”

“The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.”

Heart Poetry Passion Emotion Poet Fortune Affection Warm Charm Over It Sentiments Sublime Lively Disdain Love And Friendship Magnanimity

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.”

Thinking Men Passion Understanding Emotion Design Draws Affection

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

Love Needs Giving Passion Born Emotion Terrible Affection Enormous Life And Love I Love Life Best Ever Love Sad Life Mature Love Sad Feeling Needed Love True Affection

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.”

Heart Feelings Prayer Emotion Alive Worship Affection Engagement Feelings And Emotions

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”