Quotes about Zeal

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.

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

Who can harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!

So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!

One should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm.

the reason why you see no real mortification or self-denial, no eminent charity, no profound humility, no heavenly affection, no true contempt of the world, no Christian meekness, no sincere zeal, no eminent piety in the common lives of Christians, is this, because they do not so much as intend to be exact and exemplary in these virtues.

All that the saints say is a prayer to God; their whole prayer and supplication a strong wrestling for the pity of God, so that we, who by our own strength and zeal cannot be saved, may be preserved by His mercy.

We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.