Pastoral Resources

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!