Inspirational Quotes on Passion

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.”

“To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.”

“Even in God's work, these Christians are so propelled by their zeal and passion that they simply cannot stay for God to make clear His will and way.”

“Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).”

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”

“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”

“Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”

“Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions.”

“I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.”

“Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.”