Have we a bitter zeal, inciting us to strive sharply and passionately with them that are out of the way? Or is our zeal the flame of love, so as to direct all our words with sweetness, lowliness, and meekness of wisdom?
—John Wesley
“Let us seek more faith, more love, more patience, more zeal: let us labour after greater charity, greater brotherly kindness, greater humbleness of spirit.”
6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:
1. It exercises our humility.
2. It instructs our faith.
3. It lights us up with joy.
4. It inflames us with love.
5. It inspires us with zeal.
6. It lifts us up towards heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
Have we a bitter zeal, inciting us to strive sharply and passionately with them that are out of the way? Or is our zeal the flame of love, so as to direct all our words with sweetness, lowliness, and meekness of wisdom?
—John Wesley
Men who, acting from worldly principles, make the greatest stir about general philanthropy or zealous patriotism, are often very deficient in their conduct in domestic life.
—William Wilberforce
Oh (methought) if God’s people knew me, as God knows, they would not think so highly of my zeal and resolution for God, as perhaps now they do!
—David Brainerd
GOD give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love, and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.
—George Whitefield