Fervor Quotes

Fervor Quote of the day

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

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, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

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.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.