Quotes about Zeal

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means 'inspired' or 'filled with the divine.

In short, were a man to "give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned," out of zeal to promote some public good, yet without love to God, without benevolent attachment to universal being, he is morally nothing, or worse than nothing.

Be not high-minded because of thy privileges, but fear because of thy danger. The more thou hast committed unto thee, the more thou must account for. No people's account will be heavier than thine if thou do not walk worthy of the means of thy salvation. The Lord looks for more from thee than from other people: more zeal for God, more love to His truth, more justice and equity in thy ways. Thou shouldst be a special people, an only people—none like thee in all the earth.

One must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible:

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

But the sparkle had come back to her eyes and a bit of the old ginger to her voice

The first moments of the new day are not the time for our own plans and worries, not even for our zeal to accomplish our own work, but for God's liberating grace, God's sanctifying presence.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of Christ. The more a person counts as loss his own righteousness and lays hold by faith of the righteousness of Christ, the more he'll be motivated to live and work for Christ.