Quotes About Zeal

Still—leave it to an American to take something too far.

There is a principle that is often painful to young intercessors who are full of zeal: God is not in a hurry. He takes the time He needs to build His character in us. He will patiently and methodically clean up our wicked hearts so He can allow us to pray His purposes into human affairs. Most of us want everything to happen immediately, but God loves to marinate.

Maybe, instead, I'll set the world on fire. I just might.

the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

She'd taken the harlot century she'd been born into for granted, knowing no other, but now-seeing it with his eyes, hearing it with his ears-she understood it afresh; saw just how desperate it was to please, yet how dispossessed of pleasure; how crude, even as it claimed sophistication; and, despite it's zeal to spellbind, how utterly unenchanting.

She'd taken the harlot century she'd been born into for granted, knowing no other, but now — seeing it with his eyes, hearing it with his ears — she understood it afresh; saw just how desperate it was to please, yet how dispossessed of pleasure; how crude, even as it claimed sophistication; and, despite its zeal to spellbind, how utterly unenchanting.

Unconscionable Love, To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!

His heart beat high for war and he blazed with an implacable fire which needed no kindling.

Oh, I am in love with life!

No spark, no boom.

Unfortunately, for most of us, when we think of having overzealous faith and being a jerk for Jesus, we picture someone with bad breath, bad theology, and no people skills. So it never dawns on us that we could be included.

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

I'd rather be impetuous than placid any day.

With the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

As Hoffa told Johnny Dio in one of those wiretapped conversations that he couldn't remember: "… treat them right and you don't have to worry." Although others may have shared his zeal to improve the lives of American working men and women and their families, Jimmy Hoffa had the power to do something about it.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

there was a little too much of the best intentions going on