Quotes About Passion

You are what you worship. And you worship what you love. —James K. A. Smith

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God

Oh, how sweet it is to be spent and worn out for God!

I longed to spend and be spent for God.

no amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

Deciding whom to love is an inherently emotional business.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.

outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I'd had fights over him, I'd got beaten up because of him.

We don't make music - it makes us.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Performers try harder.

If they liked a tune, they wanted to hear it again—now! The vibe was more like CBGB than your typical contemporary opera house.

Still, making music is its own reward.