Ardent Quotes

146 quotes by 128 authors

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. — Robert Benchley
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it… — Theodore Bikel
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in… — David Brainerd
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which… — Edmund Burke
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate… — Sam Abell
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin… — Alexander Hamilton
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,… — Henry Ward Beecher
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… — Plutarch
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage — Thomas Jefferson
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very… — May Sarton
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of… — Phillips Brooks
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor… — Mechthild of Magdeburg
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to… — Michael Ruse
How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do see Him, you… — Saint John Chrysostom
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces… — Angela of Foligno

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