Quotes about Eagerness

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

We should live with a holy anticipation of what's around the corner.

This uncertainty in turn, of course, begets a new and anxious eagerness for certainty: hence the appeal of fundamentalism, which in today's world is not so much a return to a premodern worldview but precisely to one form of modernism (reading the Bible within the grid of a quasi-or pseudoscientific quest for "objective truth

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

They welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Acts 17:11

But to fulfill the law means to do its work eagerly, lovingly and freely, without the constraint of the law; it means to live well and in a manner pleasing to God, as though there were no law or punishment.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to curtail the friendship.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

The rat race of such predation and usurpation is a restlessness that issues inescapably in anxiety that is often at the edge of being unmanageable; when pursued vigorously enough, moreover, one is propelled to violence against the neighbor in eagerness for what properly belongs to the neighbor.

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.