Passion

I've been thinking about what drives my life, or at least what SHOULD drive my life, so here are some jumbled thoughts...

"The world is too much with us, late and soon...
We have givin our hearts away, a sordid boon!"

"you have abandoned the love that you had at first. You have deserted Me, your first love."

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends"

"They didn't love their lives so much as to shrink from death"

"They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them."

"it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only how did you take it?"
"It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts;
It's how did you fight and why?"

"It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,
But only, how did you die?"

"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain..."

I want this to be the driving passion in my life, to live every moment for Christ out of love.

"To die for love? What could be more glorious?"