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“A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted upon by an immortal spirit.”

Heart Form Spirit Divine Embrace Affection Atmosphere Immortal Expansion Ambient

Author:Judith Sargent Murray

“The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.”

Men Mean Seems Earth Spirit Force Born Sky Wind Weight Affection Temptation Ties Carrie Opposing Kites

Book:The Rod, the Root and the Flower

Source: The Rod, the Root and the Flower

“In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.”

Men Ideas Self Spirit Sacrifice Circumstances Affection Loyalty Proportion Get Back Masculinity Loan Rise Above Self Sacrifice Manliness

Author:Charles Kingsley

“We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.”

War Spirit Fronts Affection Loyalty Persistence Soviet Dedication Selfless Bows Heroism Severe Exceptional Homeland Grandeur Boundless Invincible

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Consciously, distinctly, resolutely, habitually, we need to give ourselves, our business, our interests, our families, our affections, into the Spirit's hands, to lead and fashion us as He will. When we work with the current of that Divine will, all is vital, efficient, fruitful.”

Needs Giving Hands Spirit Interest Fashion Divine Affection Currents Our Family Efficient Divine Will

Book:Sermons for the People

Source: Sermons for the People

“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.”

Soul Whole Body Spirit Jesus United Grace Holy Unions Profound Fruit Affection Holy Spirit Transformed Marvelous

Author:Pope Francis

“It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.”

Heart Beautiful Spirit Fiction Son Speech Bible Dignity Affection Disciple Saviour Parables Prodigals Prodigal Son

Book:Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]

Source: Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]

“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.”

Mind Heart May Spirit Force Understanding Principles Effects Affection Oppression Bows Bent Engaging Restraining Recoil

Author:Mary Hays

“Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.”

Spirit Affection Spots Concealing

Author:Zora Neale Hurston