Quotes about Passion

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Poetry was alive and dangerous.

Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

Love flies, runs, and rejoices. It is free and nothing can hold it back.

Increase this love in me, that in my innermost being I may taste the sweetness of your love. Melt my heart that I may swim in your love...Let me sing the song of your love and follow you into heaven, my beloved. Let my soul soar in your praise and rejoice in your love. Let me love you more than myself, and love myself only in you.

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.