Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none comes further.
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 if we can so take them our share in the passion of Christ.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
My fault my failure is not in the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
But my experience is that people who have been through painful difficult times are filled with compassion.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history) men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Skill is the unified force of experience intellect and passion in their operation.
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality in freedom of speech and in tolerance compassion and understanding for people irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
I am a universalist passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty equality kindness compassion treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values.
I have no respect for the passion of equality which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education urban education women and children's issues and literacy.
I have maintained a passionate interest in education which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
Before I begin talking about the threats we face the vulnerabilities that we have and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.