Genuine Affection Quotes

The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

Love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

Love is a context, not a behavior.

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.