Quotes about Passions
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
— Aristotle
St. Augustine also states that, in a sense, shame is related to disobedience. Positively, this would mean that when there is perfect obedience to God, there is no shame. This confirms somewhat the spiritual truth that Catholic educators have observed, namely, that as obedience to the law of Christ increases, concupiscence or the passions actually diminish.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
— John Maxwell
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
— George Bernard Shaw
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.
— Marcus Aurelius
And therefore let thy chief fort and place of defence be, a mind free from passions. A stronger place, (whereunto to make his refuge, and so to become impregnable) and better fortified than this, hath no man. He that seeth not this is unlearned. He that seeth it, and betaketh not himself to this place of refuge, is unhappy.
— Marcus Aurelius
Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
— Samuel Johnson
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
— John Piper
God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.
— John Piper
No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions. "Mere knowledge is confessedly too weak. The affections alone remain to supply the deficiency."1
— John Piper