Most of us could stop doing something that's hindering our passion for Jesus and effectiveness in following him.
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
If you want to know about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that has animated them throughout their life, whether they were in office or out, whether they were winning elections or losing them.
Someone is spending their life and their passion and their ingenuity on something that's seemingly potentially trite. But it's what they're doing, and it's what's important to them and what's beautiful to them.
My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.
Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.
That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm. ' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing. . . but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms. . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect. . .
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.