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Passion Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
- We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
- Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ
- Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they…
- Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even…
- Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
- Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their…
- Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
- And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps…
- There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's…
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe