Quotes about Zeal
I longed to spend and be spent for God.
— David Brainerd
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
— Ignatius of Loyola
God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!
— David Wilkerson
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
— John Piper
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
— Charles Spurgeon
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
— Francis Chan
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
— Jim Elliot
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
— John Piper
The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.
— Larry Crabb