More Gleanings from 'Bunyan's Characters' by A. Whyte - Passion

"The springs of all our actions are in our passions.
All our activities in life, trace them all up to their source, and they will all be found to run up into the wellhead of our passions.
All our virtues are cut as with a chisel out of our passions, and all our vices are just the disorders and rebellions of our passions.
Our several passions, as they lie still asleep in our hearts, have as yet no moral character; they are only the raw material so to speak, of moral character.
Our passions are the life and the riches and the ornaments of human nature, and it is only because human nature in its present estate is so corrupt and disordered and degraded, that the otherwise so honourable name of passion has such a sinister sound to us.
And the full regeneration and restitution of human nature will be accomplished when every several passion is in its right place, and when reason and conscience and the Spirit of God shall inspire and rule and regulate all that is within us."