#affections

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bad #cities #cities-and-countries #city #good

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#affections #anything #consists #else #men

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#curiosity #influence #interesting #man #natural

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #consists #enjoyment #happiness #nature

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. ↗

— John Keats

#am #certain #heart #holiness #i

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#love-of-god #love