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    C. T. Studd
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    Send us people with initiative. Send only Pauls and Timothys . . . who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done. Quantity is n...

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    Skye Jethani
    In our zeal to honor the importance of God’s Word and extol its usefulness, we may unintentionally do the opposite. We may reduce the Bible from God’s revelation of himself to merely a revelation of d...

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    John Newton
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    Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    There were earnest longings that all God’s people might be clothed with humility and meekness, like the Lamb of God, and feel nothing in their hearts but love and compassion to all mankind; and great ...

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    John Calvin
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    In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

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    Antiphon
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    There are people who do not live their present life; it is as if they were preparing themselves, with all their zeal, to live some other life, but not this one. And while they do this, time goes by an...

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    James Fenimore Cooper
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    “The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangeme...

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    Francis de Sales
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    While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and ...

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    Louis D. Brandeis
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    The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

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    James I. Packer
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    We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of...

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    John Climacus
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    Just as a tempered metal can sharpen soft or rusty metal, so can a zealous brother set a tepid one on the right track.

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    Czesław Miłosz
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    Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the fi...

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    Charles Dickens
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    My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great ai...

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    Don Everts
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    Even Christians living through a hostile season are called to stand with their neighbors and become zealous for the common good.

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    Theophan the Recluse
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    Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination to live according to the Spirit of God. Just as sal...

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    B. B. Warfield
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    Let us, then, cultivate an attitude of courage as over against the investigations of the day. None should be more zealous in them then we. None should be more quick to discern truth in every field, mo...

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    Ben Witherington III
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    Luke 19:1-10, Luke 7:36-50, Matthew 14:13-21, Matthew 26:20-25, 1 Corinthians 11:28-29, Luke 15:1-2
    We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized to take the meal; one needed to repent to take the meal; one n...

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    Joni Eareckson Tada
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    Like supernatural effervescence, praise will sometimes bubble up from the joy of simply knowing Christ. Praise like that is...delight. Pure pleasure! But praise can also be supernatural determination....

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    John Knox
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    Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept on...

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    Brennan Manning
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    The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high...

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Joshua 1:6-9, Nehemiah 2:11-20, 1 Kings 19:19-21, Psalm 122:1, Romans 12:11
    Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    All joy emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

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    Charles Hummel
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    A fanatic has been described as a person who, when unsure of his direction, doubles his speed.

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    William Law
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    Joshua 24:14-15, 1 Kings 18:21, Daniel 1:8, Luke 9:62, Acts 4:19-20, Psalm 119:10-11
    It was this…intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors. And if you ...

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    Charles Wesley
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    Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

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    Clement of Alexandria
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    Hebrews 11:8-10, Luke 1:38, Matthew 21:22 , Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 1:6, James 1:2-4
    Faith is a voluntary anticipation.

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    Persons need not and ought not to set any bounds to their spiritual and gracious appetites, [instead they ought] to be endeavoring by all possible ways to inflame their desires and to obtain more spir...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    All joy, as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement, emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Out best havings are wantings.

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    Richard J. Foster
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    Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    The Christian should be an alleluia from head to foot.
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