Quotes About Passion

Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible

God created me-and you-to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives. Therefore to resolve to maximize his happiness in God was to resolve to show him more glorious than all other sources of happiness. Seeking happiness in God and glorifying God were the same.

If you love the glory of God, you cannot be indifferent to missions.

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

The deepest reason why we live for the glory of God is that God acts for the glory of God. We are passionate about God's glory because God is passionate about God's glory.

It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

Only exult in the cross of Christ. Only rejoice in the cross of Christ. Paul says: let this be your single passion, your single boast and joy and exultation

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

chacun souhaitait le voir, et ceux qui, habitués par le passé aux émotions violentes, ne ressentaient que le poids de l'ennui, se réjouissaient d'avoir en leur présence un objet capable de retenir leur attention. Rien ne venait jamais échauffer son visage d'une pâleur mortelle, pourtant doté d'une forme régulière et de beaux traits, ni le rouge de la modestie ou le feu plus intense de la passion […].

Sometimes a steering wheel is better than a guitar

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.

Our life," he sighed, "is meant to be a series of love affairs—nothing more. And you all know that. And who knows whos just around the corner? . . . Come on," he said, passing gracefully from one awed person to another, "drink up!

Love can fuck up desire, I'll agree to that," I said, and I believed that. If, on the occasions when someone I had sex with remained after orgasm, and an edge of friendship was being suggested to me—as, say, we might lie, though rarely, talking—if, then, at those times, all desire faded.

How erotic Texas must be!" she said. I was sure she had meant "exotic," but I followed through: "Maybe, if you find cactus and deserts erotic, sensual.

The Ethereal Angels—these are the artists, the poets, the dancers. .

[Rain] is beautiful when it comes hurried and passionate, fleeing from the storm wind, hurled, like a volley of small musketry, against your streaming panes.... It is beautiful in the Midsummer, when it comes in light, soft showers, or, more in earnest, accompanied with thunder-music, straight and heavy; when, as the poet says— "Rolling as in sleep, Low thunders bring the mellow rain."

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.