Quotes about Zeal

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

You have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

We must have a virile, dynamic, aggressive Christian who lives Christ seven days a week, who is ready to die, if necessary, for his faith.

It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.

The longing of your breast is to be a living flame, ignited with the exhilaration of beholding His beauty, worshiping Him with uninhibited abandon, and deployed into the world with self-controlled, calculated zeal that does not love its own life even unto death.