Man is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Out of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.

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

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

We can choose between the future and the past between reason and ignorance between true compassion and mere ideology.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

In love unlike most other passions the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.