Quotes about Zeal
How much more would a few good and fervent men effect in the ministry than a multitude of lukewarm ones!" said Oecolampadius, the German Reformer.
- Horatius Bonar
15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
- Philip Yancey
Martin Luther claimed that he "never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Act enthusiastic and you become enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie
Passion gives you energy.
- John Maxwell
Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.
- JC Ryle
Take heed, lest you are found at the left hand of Christ at last--a lost Episcopalian or a lost Presbyterian, a lost Baptist or a lost Methodist--lost because, with all your zeal for your own party and your own communion table, you never joined the one true Church.
- JC Ryle
This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.
- Francis Schaeffer
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
- RC Sproul
Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
- Francis Chan
ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKING BUT THE PRAISE OF MEN, HERE FIND FIT RETRIBUTION, EMPTY AS THEIR DEED
- John Milton