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“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Men Heart May Passion Cases Fire Wind Add Arise Burning Ignite Wild Passion

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing”

May Life Is Passion Lord Our Lives Produce Ideals Blessed Passionate Accomplish Triumph Isolated Sacraments Our Lord Passionate Love Acts Of Love Blessed Sacrament Accomplish Nothing

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.”

May Form Passion Winning Fountain

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion”

Needs Feels May Passion Hair Monopoly Spectators

Author:John Berger

“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.”

Men May Certain Passion Circumstances Miserable Fortunate Temper

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph

“Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.”

May Soul Passion Saint Deeds Your Soul Dominant Mold

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.”

“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”

“There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.”

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.”

May Passion Veils

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.”

Men May Happens Action Passion Sides Hours Answers Influence Events Masters Circumstances Creatures Slave Selfish Circles Willpower Wavering

Book:Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.”