Quotes about Passion
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
— Hildegard of Bingen
The things that we love tell us what we are.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
— Catherine of Siena
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
— Teresa of Avila
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
— William Booth
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
— Charles Dickens
It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
— Soren Kierkegaard
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
— Thomas Cranmer
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
— Paul Tillich
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison