Quotes About Zeal

Let's set the place afire.

but President Harding told Secretary of State Hughes, "Frankly, it is difficult for me to be consistently patient with our good friends of the Church who are properly and earnestly zealous in promoting peace until it comes to making warfare on someone of the contending religion…"23

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured for the greatest absurdity. - Of Miracles

They approach most issues with equal certainty and zeal. Theirs is the only legitimate position, so all opposition must be silenced in proceeding to the mandated, top-down solution. Often superficially appealing, their causes are always billed as urgent. Remember their passion for the homeless? Why do we hear so little from Democrats on the issue now, when homelessness is rising sharply in deep-blue states like California and in other major cities under Democratic control?

Finished a letter for the New York Herald, trying to enlist American zeal to stop the East Coast slave-trade: I pray for a blessing on it from the All-Gracious. [Through a coincidence a singular interest attaches to this entry. The concluding words of the letter he refers to are as follows:—] "All I can add in my loneliness is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on everyone, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal the open sore of the world.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Even Christ pleased not Himself. He was utterly consumed in the zeal of His Father's house. As man He ever moved for God. As God He ever moved for man.

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

A lukewarm heart cannot perform boiling hot worship! Heat up our hearts for God and the temperature of our worship will increase!

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.