“It is impossible to exist without passion”

“By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity.”

“Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.”

“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”

“Faith is the highest passion in a man.”

“Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.”

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.”