Top 100 Quotes About Fervent
#1. He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
Augustine Of Hippo
#2. Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
David Bryant
#3. Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I'm using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.
Cassandra King
#4. 2PE3.10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
Anonymous
#5. It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.
Philip Neri
#6. My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
Edward Brooke
#7. It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
John Clayton
#8. Love is an activity, not a feeling ... True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.
Stephen L. Carter
#9. I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
Gore Vidal
#10. Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.
Eric Hoffer
#11. I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
Bono
#12. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
Terry A. O'Neal
#13. Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.
Albert Einstein
#14. During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.
Charles A. Beard
#15. The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
Robert Capa
#16. Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
Alan Bradley
#17. What storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
Erica Jong
#18. The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. Our aim is to appeal to reason. ... Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
Carter G. Woodson
#20. I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
Umberto Eco
#21. Fierce - fervent in her affection. A giver of tight hugs and plentiful kisses. That's the makings of the best kind of mom.
Emma Chase
#22. Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.
Saint Ignatius
#23. The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
Bradley Chicho
#25. I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
James Green Somerville
#26. His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.
Thomas W. Martin
#27. My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country
instead of dying for it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#28. Many of these slaveholding populists were celebrated by posterity as tribunes of the common people. Meanwhile, the self-made Hamilton, a fervent abolitionist and a staunch believer in meritocracy, was villainized in American history textbooks as an apologist of privilege and wealth.
Ron Chernow
#29. True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.
Stephen L. Carter
#30. The laborious pastor, the fervent minister, the ardent evangelist, the faithful teacher, the powerful intercessor, can all trace the birth of their zeal to the sufferings they endured through sin, and the knowledge they thereby attained of its evil nature.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
Brian A. McBride
#32. We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
James A. Garfield
#33. Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
Jonathan Edwards
#34. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#35. I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment ... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
Franz Liszt
#36. The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
George Will
#37. Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.
Gregory Rabassa
#38. As we grow in disciplined, self-sacrificing love, so we will grow in intercessory prayer. Superficially fervent prayers devoid of such love are finally phony, hollow, shallow.5
Alexander Strauch
#39. I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protect which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.
James Monroe
#40. Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.
Hadewijch
#41. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.
Deborah Sampson
#42. Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#43. Some of the most beautiful and rewarding relationships come from mutual respect that eventually burned into fervent passion. Don't take for granted the friendship you are building at the moment, just appreciate it and cherish it for what it is.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#45. If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.
Audrey Niffenegger
#46. Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.
Mitch Albom
#47. It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect ...
George Washington
#48. I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.
Tina Brown
#49. In spiritual warfare, as we detect enemy activity and deploy the various pieces of armor, our prayers need to be fervent and specific, strategic and personal, tied to the specific needs arising at that specific occasion.
Priscilla Shirer
#50. When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.
Charles K. Kao
#51. Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.
Heather Lyons
#52. Intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.
Samuel Chadwick
#53. When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling - that woman is a Christian.
Frederick Douglass
#55. Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#56. The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann
#57. We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.
Emanuel Cleaver
#58. When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#59. Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
Thomas Sowell
#60. Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.
Erik Erikson
#61. The love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#62. What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
Mary Baker Eddy
#63. Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#64. I've always understood that my heart is multilingual. It speaks in whispers, expressions, colours, body, songs, and fervent desire.
Cheri Bauer
#65. While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.
Steve Largent
#66. There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.
Jimmy Carter
#67. Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
George Will
#68. Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.
Bertrand Russell
#71. Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.
Martin Luther
#72. You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
Melina Mercouri
#73. There is great power in loving, consistent, fervent family prayer. Don't deny your families this blessing. Don't allow the strength that comes from family prayer to slip away from you and your loved ones through neglect.
John H. Groberg
#74. In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about. On Christian radio and television we are often merely talking to ourselves.
Jim Cymbala
#75. Piously we produce our images of you
till they stand around you like a thousand walls.
And when our hearts would simply open,
our fervent hands hide you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#76. What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
Benjamin Disraeli
#77. I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.
Mark Twain
#78. It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
Saint John Chrysostom
#79. I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
Marina Warner
#80. God shows up powerfully when our worship is sincere and fervent in spite of whatever difficult circumstance we might be experiencing.
James MacDonald
#81. Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as - and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be - lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of value or reason or even to go on living, before they were 'saved.
David Foster Wallace
#82. I prefer to think of it as burning down their crops. [when asked why he - a fervent anti-Communist - smoked Cuban cigars]
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.
#83. We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel. To do so harms others. That's wrong. Therefore we don't disembowel Bambi like the way coyotes do, we shoot him first.
P. J. O'Rourke
#84. One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
William Carey
#85. All belief is fervent hope, and thus a cover-up for doubt and uncertainty - religions
Alan W. Watts
#86. Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.
Billy Graham
#88. Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#89. There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#90. Every year ought to find us more fervent in charity; every day ought our soul to augment in strength, and be decked with new flowers of virtue and good works.
Alban Butler
#91. Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right - creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.
Thomas Sowell
#92. Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
William Carey
#93. Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart.
Sunday Adelaja
#94. We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.
Thomas S. Monson
#95. Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.
Dave Hunt
#96. Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
Edward Everett
#97. It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
Franz Liszt
#98. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
Robert B. Leighton
#99. Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.
Maurice Herzog
#100. People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
Susan Sontag
