July 19

We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein.—ACTS XIV, 15.

How terrible is passion! how our reason

Falls down before it, while the tortur'd frame,

Like a ship dash'd by fierce encountering tides,

And of her pilot spoil'd, drives round and round,

The sport of wind and wave.

BARFORD.

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

BROOKE.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

DR. ROBERT SOUTH.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

CONFUCIUS.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

CICERO.

Some passions cannot be regulated, but must be entirely cut off.

SENECA.

We ne'er are angels till our passions die.

THOMAS DEKKER.

The passions are the gales of life, and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest,

DR. ISAAC WATTS.

Lose not thyself, nor give thy humors way; God gave them to thee under lock and key.

GEORGE HERBERT.