Sentences with phrase «when zeal»

This lunchtime was the moment when his zeal became unproductive and unhelpful.

Jesus was not defending himself nor fighting in an army when his zeal for his Father's house motivated him to act.

Not exact matches

Editas's website gives you a sense of the mission and zeal it brings to its work: «There are few times in our lives when science astonishes us — when we suddenly may be able to do something that once seemed out of reach.

Apply the same level of passion and zeal that you felt when you first started your business to every difficult situation.

It does concern me a bit when our politicians vow their religious zeal over and over... what does ol Obama hear when he listens to the «voice»?

Right now, Muslims are at war with other sects of Muslims and are killing with just as much zeal as when they fight with Jews.

So when we delineate ourselves then separate ourselves according to our theologies and opinions, usually with spiritual zeal, we are in fact denying the Spirit.

Sure, there have been times when Ned took his religious zeal a little too far — like attempting to baptize the Simpson kids without telling their parents — and is prone to the occasional existential crisis («I think I'm coveting my own wife!»)

Given the author's remarkable learning, most readers are likely to learn a great deal, especially when he uses Augustine's sermons as source material; but the captious tone and prosecutorial zeal of the effort starts to grate as early as the first chapter.

where it is impossible to deny that Religion prevails with more zeal, and a more exemplary priesthood than it ever did when established and patronised by Public authority.»

This dualism reached its zenith in Western civilization when it combined with a puritan zeal that was thorough in removing beauty and fun from life in every aspect, in instituting and institutionalizing the repressive mentality, and in identifying Christianity with a strict moralism and a rigid austerity.

When a congregation divides, a certain zeal for love can disappear forever.

I'd say uneducated, unsuccessful bitter racist white - trash fundamentalists (who are all about as sharp as a marble) are always the ones drawn to the KKK, John Birch, and fundamentalist «churches»... they're easy to amp up with hatred of a common enemy... which is what you see «churches» like Westboro Blabtist do... just look at the combination of zeal and hatred in their faces when they're on the news.

Writing on the situation in Zimbabwe, Ambrose Mayo states this clearly when he says: «With zeal all missionaries preached Christ crucified, risen from the dead and alive today.

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

It is good to challenge the status quo when it does not line up with scripture (like confronting the desire for violence and vengeance especially among «conservative» Christians), but we should not in our zeal push the pendulum too far the other way and undermine our view of God's sovereignty, power, and holiness.

When you come to the realization that if you were born in Iran that you would have the EXACT same zeal for Muhammad that you do for Jesus, then that will be a big awakening for you.

In Galatians 1:13 - 16 he tells of his former life in Judaism, his progress beyond that of many of his contemporaries, his zeal for his ancestral traditions, and his devastation of the Church of God; this situation was transformed when God revealed his Son «in» him so that he might proclaim the gospel among the gentiles.

Islam was a great religion for helping pagans out of idolatry but not when it foments trouble around the world in its zeal to convert non-believers.

This idea came into its own in the modern period, when Bacon declared the world the arena for human satisfaction and flourishing, and thus brought a missionary zeal to the program of scientific experimentation and technological innovation.

«In an age when religious zeal turned brother against brother,» says Greer, «the drama sought to reunite the people and raise public morale.

When a person exhibits too much passion over anything — God, a political movement, the latest in tattoos or a popular television show — we label that person as obsessive or compulsive, and mutter, «Get a life» Might we better understand zeal as Isaiah does, as the prerogative of God, who, despite the mess we've made of things, still chooses to care for this battered creation and our faulty selves?

«It is as though he meant to say in so many words that when the sight of another's infirmity is displeasing, reflect on what you are, that the spirit may moderate itself in its zeal of reproving, in fearing in its own case that which it reproves.

Perfectionism can subtly manifest itself as holiness and zeal for Christ, when it may in reality be an attempt to earn grace rather than manifest it.

It never fails if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when getting another drink.

Truth is that this becomes difficult when the people around me — the people of the church, «my people» — don't embrace singleness with the same zeal.

The same with zeal, which becomes fanaticism when we are more outraged at others» sins than our own.

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»

I remember years ago when I was in the first flush of Christian zeal and part of a student group.

I may even have «rediscovered» the sacred after a dry period in my life when I felt no zeal for religion.

When the civil rights movement erupted in the 1960s, social observers suggested that the nation was experiencing a revival of the religious zeal that had inspired abolition, the Social Gospel, and the progressive movement.

While John Locke's admonition against the «blind precipitancy» of passion should always guide the serious philosopher, an excess of zeal may well be forgiven when it involves the kind of innocent fallout that inevitably accompanies genius — as is the case with Karl Popper.

Oh, Thou the Good's stern zeal for thyself, that Thou perhaps permit - test him to get the reward in the world, just when Thou hast rejected him; that Thou lettest him get the reward of the world, while he has ungratefully forgotten what a blessedness it is to have Thy reward, while earth withholds her reward from him!

Anyway — I agree with you thematically — written by people, but when you write such things that show you are ignorant of the source of current translations, it only serves to fuel fundamentalists» zeal and dismiss you as uninformed.

When so many reforms proved abortive, the very zeal by which they had been engendered kindled a new effort for the correction of abuses.

Your zeal for cooking and baking is infectious, and sometimes when I'm down I go to your blog just because it cheers me up somehow.

When the going is tough, we lack character and strong zeal...

We need someone that can take responsibility in the middle of the park, someone that can drive us forward, someone that will take any game by the scruff of the neck when we need to score in the middle of d park, we have that in front, Ah, gutted, why are we no more talking about Thomas lemar, we need his creative and zeal to move the ball forward ability in this arsenal team.

When you look at city's players one by one, they are not too better than ours, but the difference is their dedication, and the zeal to play and win for their manager, which unfortunately our players don't have.

Only eight minutes had elapsed when the Old Lady's zeal paid dividends.

Indeed, the rhetoric is nothing less than threatening, of any and all bedsharing parents even when risks are minimized; and the zeal and imprecise language which is being used by many technicians involved in what is considered «safe infant sleep» campaigns is over simplified to the point that it is inaccurate, misleading, and inappropriate, and is itself dangerous on many different levels, both politically and scientifically (see Gettler and McKenna 2010 available on this website).

«Young people who are beginning life and want to contribute by way of offering themselves in terms of leadership when they have the skill, the talents, the zeal and the capacity to lead, you are saying that if they don't have the financial muscle, they should go hang?

After the resignation of Peter Mandelson, the Deputy Prime Minister issued a coded call for Mr Blair to tone down his revolutionary zeal when he said that the New Labour project should go no further than Labour's manifesto.

When Michael Gove took over at the Ministry of Justice after the election it was seen as his opportunity to introduce to the legal system some of the reforming zeal clearly demonstrated at the Department for Education.

His speech was also well structured and delivered, which is more than can be said for Jeremy Corbyn's on Friday afternoon, when the Labour leader offered little more than platitudinous applause points clumsily bolted together and delivered with all the zeal of a bowling club captain.

So you expect a lot of oppositions because somebody is after what they have stolen when someone who was much younger than him did not have the political zeal to face it.

When Kathleen Rice won the race for Nassau district attorney last year, sending the longtime straight arrow Denis Dillon into retirement, she looked like everyone's idea of a 21st - century prosecutor — all youthful zeal and professionalism, with none of the tired rigidity and old - timer thinking that had come to encrust Mr. Dillon's reputation after more than 30 years in office.

When the government of India rewarded health workers for meeting sterilization quotas in 1976, the zeal of some of them for wielding scalpels regardless of their patients» wishes contributed to the downfall of Indira Gandhi's government in 1977.

We mark a point when ALMA's future is made brighter, because our three organizations zeal to learn more about the universe where we all live.»

The thoughts likewise served to become a fantastic way to know that other people have the identical zeal the same as mine to see a good deal more when considering this condition.