Quotes About Fervor

Since I wanted nothing except permission to leave quickly and go to Mr. Tachikawa's house, I applied myself with fervor to copying the teacher's calligraphy. But you can't love what you don't like.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

our heart slowly takes fire, our soul feels desires for virtue which it had not hitherto experienced, the mysteries of faith appear more luminous to us, bit by bit the world and its hopes vanish, and the longing for the good things of Heaven, which seemed to have been dozing within us, awakens with new fervor.

Zealots often carry the day.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

Besta Beal has no chill, and I love her for it.

Well I'm still a massive Celtic supporter. And I always will be. That will never leave you.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

My hope with this book is to spread the good news of the Jesus of history with the same fervor that I once applied to spreading the story of the Christ.

Zeal, the spirit that had fueled the revolutionary fervor of the bandits, prophets, and messiahs, was now coursing through the population like a virus working its way through the body.

the city that had served as the religious, economic, and political capital of the Jewish nation for a thousand years, was, by the time Pompey strode through its gates, recognized less for its beauty and grandeur than for the religious fervor of its troublesome population.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.