Fervor Quotes
72 quotes by 69 authors
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The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and…
— Jonathan Haidt
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A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust,…
— Russell B. Long
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
— Alan Dean Foster
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If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
— Paul Stanley
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
— Rita Dove
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in…
— Jon Meacham
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
— William James
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Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because…
— Hermann Hesse
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In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of…
— John Calvin
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The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely…
— Stephen Fry
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But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.
— Nalini Singh
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The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That…
— Cassandra Clare
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