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Quotes About Eagerness

The only thing that will enable me to enjoy adversity is the acute sense of eagerness of allowing the life of the Son of God to evidence itself in me. No matter how difficult something may be, I must say, "Lord, I am delighted to obey You in this." Instantly, the Son of God will move to the forefront of my life, and will manifest in my body that which glorifies Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
Have I been persecuting Jesus by an eager determination to serve Him in my own way?
~ Oswald Chambers
That the feeling I got from them through the pack bonds was eagerness for the hunt was a testimony that all werewolves are crazy.
~ Patricia Briggs
It had been amazing. Just utterly, utterly amazing, like that whole summer before senior year had been, when everything had seemed possible, when everything good felt like it was just within reach for once, when if he could just hang in there, it really would finally all come together
~ Patrick Ness
Because you are too eager to be properly patient," he said flippantly. "You're too proud to listen properly. And you're too clever by half. That's the worst of it.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.
~ Peter Cameron
I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.
~ Unknown
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
~ Acts 17:11
Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
~ 2 Corinthians 7:11
Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.
~ 2 Corinthians 8:11
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
~ 2 Corinthians 8:12
For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
~ 2 Corinthians 8:17
More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the offering—the gracious gift we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.
~ 2 Corinthians 8:19
For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
~ 2 Corinthians 9:2
Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.
~ Philippians 2:28
Be shepherds of Godís flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is Godís will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
~ 1 Peter 5:2