Inspirational Quotes on Passion

“A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.”

“She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.”

“Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.”

“The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.”

“women are the pivot on which everything turns!”

“I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.”

“What had become of his usually quiet and firm manner and the carelessly calm expression of his face? Every time he turned toward Anna he slightly bowed his head as if he wished to fall down before her, and in his eyes there was an expression of submission and fear. 'I do not wish to offend,' his every look seemed to say, 'I only wish to save myself, but I do not know how.”

“Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them?”

“Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.”

“(...) he always thinks of a dinner party as lasting all night; and he always thinks of a night as lasting forever. When the working women in the poor districts come to the doors of the public houses and try to get their husbands home, simple minded “social workers” always imagine that every husband is a tragic drunkard and every wife a broken-hearted saint. It never occurs to them that the poor woman is only doing under coarser conventions exactly what every fashionable hostess does when she tries to get the men from arguing over the cigars to come and gossip over the teacups. These women are not exasperated merely at the amount of money that is wasted in beer; they are exasperated also at the amount of time that is wasted in talk. It is not merely what goeth into the mouth but what cometh out the mouth that, in their opinion, defileth a man.”

“The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.”

“Yeah, sex is cool, but have you tried solving the brachistochrone problem in a single night?”

“Her presence seared me like a flame... but what did I care what kind of fire this was in which I burned and melted, when it was bliss to burn and melt?”

“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.”

“One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.”

“Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.”

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.”

“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.”

“May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as life wears away.”

“When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.”