“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” MayLife IsPassionLordOur LivesProduceIdealsBlessedPassionateAccomplishTriumphIsolatedSacramentsOur LordPassionate LoveActs Of LoveBlessed SacramentAccomplish Nothing Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.” IfsBookSoulReadingImpossibleProduceReadyComfortMerePassionateAccessDevotionBuyingReachingCherishEcstasyInfinityReassurance Author:A. Edward Newton
“All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.” MayEnoughDesireBornImagineStyleObjectsGreatnessProduceHumilityPassionateExpensesAccuracyDisinterested Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.” IfsBelieveHelpingNamesI BelieveDesignProducePassionateI Believe InMy True Love Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.” IfsWorldJobsJoyClassLaughingWonderfulDoorsFeetThis WorldProduceLettersMadPassionateLondonRestaurantsIf I CouldPotJust BeingChefBuzzWorld ClassDishwashersPots And Pans Author:Paul Rankin
“Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.” GivingStillsWarRealCountryEvilNationsInterestCommonSacrificeProduceCitizensIllusionPassionateVarietyAttachmentBetrayAmbitiousJustificationParticipationQuarrelsFacilityEnmityAdoptingDeludedCommon Interests Author:George Washington