Passions Quotes
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If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.
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A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
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She loved to return to the world of the book, a world in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.
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The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.
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It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
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In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
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Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
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Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.
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Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
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From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
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The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
