Passion Quotes - Page 43

Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

I honestly believe that my best work is in front, not behind me. I am driven by a deep passion and need to make a difference and leave this world a little better than when I arrived. That's what keeps me going.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.

Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.

If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.