Affections
affections
(Latin: ad; to; facere, to make)
Term used by writers on spiritual matters to denote emotions, dispositions, movements of the passions of love, desire, enjoyment of what is good, and of hatred, aversion, and disgust for what is evil. The training in virtue, devotion, asceticism, and mysticism in seminaries and novitiates is called school of the affections.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Affections
Should be supremely set upon God
Deu 6:5; Mar 12:30
Should be set upon:
– The commandments of God
Psa 19:8-10; Psa 119:20; Psa 119:97; Psa 119:103; Psa 119:167
– The house and worship of God
1Ch 29:3; Psa 26:8; Psa 27:4; Psa 84:1-2
– The people of God
Psa 16:3; Rom 12:10; 2Co 7:13-16; 1Th 2:8
– Heavenly things
Col 3:1-2
Should be zealously engaged for God
Psa 69:9; Psa 119:139; Gal 4:18
Christ claims the first place in
Mat 10:37; Luk 14:26
Enkindled by communion with Christ
Luk 24:32
Blessedness of making God the object of
Psa 91:14
Should not grow cold
Psa 106:12-13; Mat 24:12; Gal 4:15; Rev 2:4
Of saints, supremely set on God
Psa 42:1; Psa 73:25; Psa 119:10
Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
Isa 58:1-2; Eze 33:31-32; Luk 8:13
Carnal, should be mortified
Rom 8:13; Rom 13:14; 1Co 9:27; Col 3:5; 1Th 4:5
Carnal affections crucified in saints
Rom 6:6; Gal 5:24
False teachers seek to captivate
Gal 1:10; Gal 4:17; 2Ti 3:6; 2Pe 2:3; 2Pe 2:18; Rev 2:14; Rev 2:20
Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted
Rom 1:31; 2Ti 3:3; 2Pe 2:10