Pastoral Resources

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

People like passion in politics.

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

Football will always be my foremost passion.

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.