“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.”
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Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian 1703–1758Related quotes
Charles Fabry (1867–1945) French physicist
[as quoted by Joseph F. Mulligan, American journal of physics, Volume 66 (9), American Association of Physics Teachers, American Institute of Physics, 1998, 797]
“Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 27 (italics and spelling as per text)
Leviathan (1651)
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
1940s, To Every Briton (1940)
Context: This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. I have applied it in every walk of life, domestic, institutional, economic and political. I know of no single case in which it has failed. Where it has seemed sometimes to have failed, I have ascribed it to my imperfections. I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. In the course of the search the discovery of non-violence came to me. Its spread is my life-mission. I have no interest in living except for the prosecution of that mission.
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"Ali in Battle" in Ch. 20 : In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion....
I have no longing
except for the One.
When a wind of personal reaction comes,
I do not go along with it.
There are many winds full of anger,
and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around,
but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Willis Mason West http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Willis%20Mason%20West%22 in The Story of World Progress (1922), p. 434 http://www.archive.org/details/storyworldprogr00westgoog <br class="br">About <br class="br">Context: In early life he may have been a sincere republican; but he hated anarchy and disorder, and, before his campaign in Italy was over, he had begun to plan to make himself ruler of France. He worked systematically to transform the people's earlier ardor for liberty into a passion for military glory and plunder.
“Splendid if I overcome
My earthy passion,
But if I succeed not,
Still I have known happiness!”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
“I still have the passion in my heart. If I don’t sing, my heart doesn’t beat so strong...”
Julio Iglesias (1943) Spanish recording artist; singer-songwriter
On singing in "Julio Iglesias says 50-year singing career is 'a miracle'" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-julio-iglesias/julio-iglesias-says-50-year-singing-career-is-a-miracle-idUSKCN1T60WU in Reuters (2019 Jun 5)
Susan Orlean (1955) American journalist
Source: The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession