Quotes about Passion

You learn a great deal about the true nature of a person in the way they love, why they love, and, in what they love.

For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.

The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God and others with our whole heart. When we ignore this heart aspect of our faith and try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled, or perverted, and the divorce of our soul from the heart purposes of God toward us is deepened.

Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce. But the soul refuses to be harnessed; it knows nothing of Day Timers and deadlines and P&L statements. The soul longs for passion, for freedom, for life.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live The way it moves me!

Most Christians have lost the life of their heart and with it, their romance with God.

A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

You really won't understand your life as a woman until you understand this: You are passionately loved by the God of the universe. You are passionately hated by his Enemy.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

The adventures and work that we choose must fit the soul of the boy. One young man's adventure would be terrifying to another.