Quotes About Zeal

she might even be so zealous about religious observances as to be unable to see her own faults;

Renew your passions daily.

Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.

A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.

Encourage the enthusiastic.

Passion is hard to define, but I know it when I see it.

Remember always thine end, and how the time which is lost returneth not. Without care and diligence thou shalt never get virtue. If thou beginnest to grow cold, it shall begin to go ill with thee, but if thou givest thyself unto zeal thou shalt find much peace, and shalt find thy labour the lighter because of the grace of God and the love of virtue.

Two things specially avail unto improvement in holiness, namely firmness to withdraw ourselves from the sin to which by nature we are most inclined, and earnest zeal for that good in which we are most lacking.

Such affection and devotion, such mighty love and zeal are often far beyond me. Be merciful to me, O sweet, good, kind Jesus, and grant me, Your poor suppliant, sometimes at least to feel in Holy Communion a little of the tenderness of Your love, that my faith may grow stronger, that my hope in Your goodness may increase, and that charity, once perfectly kindled within me by tasting heavenly manna, may never fail.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

What it means is you will fight until you're all used up. Far from being sour, life is so sweet you will live it to the hilt and be consumed by it.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

There is no point of doing anything if you're not going to do it all the way.

I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

If something is worth doing - it's worth overdoing.

Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.

If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.

Posees la llama pero te falta el calor»

He wanted his life to be painted with the strongest colors he could find.

Love that is not madness is not love.

If you hate everything, you're a banal asshole…but if you don't hate anything, you're boring.

My goal is to be an engine of excitement in people's lives.