Quotes About Zeal

But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.

Take heed, lest you are found at the left hand of Christ at last--a lost Episcopalian or a lost Presbyterian, a lost Baptist or a lost Methodist--lost because, with all your zeal for your own party and your own communion table, you never joined the one true Church.

Begeisterung ist keine Heringsware, die man einpökelt auf einige Jahre.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

I've never wanted a quiet life.

There is not that readiness and zeal in the work of the church, which I would wish to see. There are many fruitless branches on the tree, Mrs. Laicus, many members of my church who do nothing really to promote its interests. They are not to be found in the Sabbath School; they cannot be induced to participate actively in tract distribution; and they are even not to be depended on in the devotional week-day meetings of the church.

Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt.

Martin Buber as described for basic virtues cultivated by the Hasidim to overcome the separation of the sacred and secular. . . . St. Benedict spoke of them as truly seeking God, zeal for a humble way of life, zeal for obedience, and zeal for the opus of God. Buber catalogues them as kavana (single-mindedness), shiflut (humility), avada (service), and hitlahavut (fire of ecstasy). 129

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

So easie still it proves in Factious Times, With publick Zeal to cancel private Crimes: How safe is Treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the Peoples Will: Where Crouds can wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own.

Some OPD lawyers were zealously committed to defending the poor and oppressed, and for them the job was not a stepping-stone to another career. Regardless of how little they earned or how tight their budgets were, they thrived on the lonely independence of their work and the satisfaction of protecting the underdog.

I'll tell you how to burn

Intensity is the price of excellence.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.