Quotes about Zeal

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.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

Passion makes one persuasive.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

I'm sick and tired of life with no desire. I don't want a flame, I want a fire.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

The lazy priest always has less time than the zealous priest, because the former is thinking in terms of the interruptions to his leisure, while the latter seeks the opportunity to be another Christ. The priest's time is not his own; it is Our Lord's.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.