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“O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!”

Knows Humans Littles Soul Light Given Answers Sacred Affection Reverence Anguish Human Soul Pleading

Book:Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.”

Habit Sacred Affection

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.”

Self My Own Virtue Grace Bears Miracle Sacred Affection Witness Lifts Tenderness Emergence Sanctify Improbability

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.”

Men Soul Turns Girl Careers Sacred Affection Deeds Impulse Heroic Martyr Frivolous Steadfast Anthem Deathless

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.”

Humans Goal Laughing Tradition Sacred Affection

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.”

Looks Joy Duty Gratitude Worship Weakness Sacred Meetings Affection Proof Acceptable Volume Zeal

Book:A Practical View

Source: A Practical View

“Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness.”

“Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.”

Heart Soul Form Spirit Tears Sacred Wine Dear Affection Poetry Is Sigh Incarnation Nourishment Messiah Dear Friend

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.”

Lying Dangerous Members Sacred Affection Obligation Deception Deceit Dishonesty Trifles Deceiver

Author:George Crabbe

“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”

Artist Born Knowing Sacred Affection Intense Quests Custody Olden Times Joint Custody

Author:Gustave Courbet