Quotes About Zeal

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.

Ambition is soul set on fire.

Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.

What you do with ease is your passion.

Those without passion are often passed and shunned.

Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

In the primitive church were not prayers simple, unpremeditated, united; prayers of the well-taught apostle; prayers of the accomplished scholar; prayers of the rough but fervent peasant; prayers of the new and zealous convert; prayers which importuned and wrestled with an instant and irrepressible urgency; were they not an essential part of that religion, which holy fire had kindled; and which daily supplications alone could fan?

belief, expressed in such diverse and fascinating ways, in the One who had placed them there: the Christians, the Jews, the Mohammedans, and a hundred offshoots of each, all raising their voices in praise to Him—often, too, raising their swords against one another in a manner, a zeal of hatred, which must have perplexed Him, as if one could ever chop off the head of one of His children and ascribe the act to His direct orders.

Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation.

We have outdone the Spaniards in Peru! They were at least butchers on a religious principle, however diabolical their zeal. We have murdered, deposed, plundered, usurped – say what think you of the famine in Bengal, in which three millions perished, being caused by a monopoly of the provisions by the servants of the East India Company?

It is not enough you are orthodox preachers, and deliver truth; it is zeal God calls for at your hands. He so strongly himself desires the salva tion of poor sinners, that he disdains you, whom he sends to impart it to them, should coldly deliver it, without showing your good-will to the thing.

God met with Michal also, for despising her husband, merely upon a religious ac count, because he showed a holy zeal for God, which her proud spirit, as many others since have done, thought it too mean and base to do. Well, what is her punishment? 'Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child unto the day of her death.' The service of God was too low for a king in her thoughts, therefore shall none come out of her womb to sit on the throne or wear a crown.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of waves.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

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A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

I longed to spend and be spent for God.