Quotes about Passions

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

At the end of our lives, our greatest regrets will be the God-ordained opportunities we left on the table, the God-given passions we didn't pursue, and the God-sized dreams we didn't go after because we let fear dictate our decisions.

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

This strategy proceeds by making people aware of their human longings and desires, and what these passions point to. These are longings and desires that are innate and buried in their lives. In particular, the strategy draws their attention to what have been called the "signals of transcendence" that are embedded in their normal, daily experience.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

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.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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,