Quotes About Passion

How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!

Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Do not extinguish the Spirit.

But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Donít they come from the passions at war within you?

Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.