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Quotes About Ardor

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
~ William Hazlitt
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.
~ David Hawkins
There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
~ Willa Cather
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
~ Anne Sexton
Her skin seemed to bum with countless harts.
~ Richard Laymon
That childish ardor for a love that demands sacrifice of you, the rigors and discipline of it, can look selfless from the outside, but it is not selfless. It is instead the elevation of a private fantasy that is ambitious and greedy enough to foist itself onto the unsuspecting world.
~ Katie Roiphe
The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
~ E.M.Bounds
O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shameWhen the compulsive ardor gives the charge,Since frost itself as actively doth burn,And reason panders will.
~ William Shakespeare
This is the very ecstasy of love.
~ William Shakespeare
de repente el asco se invertía y no existía una palabra para expresar su antónimo, no se trataba de apetito ni de deseo, se trataba de algo más intenso...
~ Amelie Nothomb
Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
~ Roald Dahl
I like enthusiasts of any kind.
~ Roald Dahl
began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
~ Roald Dahl
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
~ Roald Dahl
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
~ J. C. Ryle
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
~ Abraham Cowley
Her arms reached up to wrap around his neck, holding on as if she would never let go. She kissed him back with an ardor that astonished, gratified, and aroused him all at once, and for a moment, he lost himself in the kiss, and in the woman, thinking to himself, now this, this is magic.
~ Deborah Blake
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
~ Emma Goldman
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Veo aquí materia suficiente para formar muchos Tomás de Aquino y muchos Arrios, si las inteligencias no hubieran perdido su antiguo ardor lo mismo para el bien que para el mal.
~ Anatole France
Draže su mi greške entuzijazma nego ravnodušnost mudrosti.
~ Anatole France
Inmediatamente, sus miradas enardecidas se fundieron de tal manera que quien los hubiera visto sólo habría notado una sola mirada, un solo movimiento rítmico y sensual, una sola respiración agitada y un mismo deseo
~ Laura Esquivel
blood-thirsty with love
~ Djuna Barnes