Quotes About Zeal

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.

This lukewarm temper arises partly from the fear of adversaries who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event. The result, however, is that whenever the enemies of change make an attack, they do so with all the zeal of partisans, while the others defend themselves so feebly as to endanger both themselves and their cause.

Thus the popes, sometimes in zeal for religion, at others moved by their own ambition, were continually calling in new parties and exciting new disturbances.

It's the same thing. Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed.

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Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed.

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand.

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.

The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

I'm a guy who has put my heart and my soul into something, into everything that I do.

Football ignites my soul.

The only thing that comes naturally to me is my energy.

Give me smart, young, and angry and I'll move the world.

It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries, perhaps the greatest number, will still seek the divine favor, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either by frivolous observances, by intemperate zeal, by rapturous extasies, or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions.

Only the very young are not ashamed to arrive panting.)