Sentences with phrase «zeal on»

The BBC and the Royal Society have merely regrouped, only having offered to relax their zeal on the belief that they had been damaged by «sceptics», rather than by their own actions embarrassing them.

I experienced the same missionary zeal on a Lindblad / National Geographic Antarctic cruise early last year.

After you dust the baseboards and before you tackle your cluttered garage, focus that spring cleaning zeal on your credit cards.

In a speech tailor - made for centrists, Governor Charles D. Baker delivered his first State of the State address with modesty and zeal on the issues marking his year in office: MBTA, DCF, opiod abuse, and charter schools.

But if a campaign doesn't have that kind of zeal on tap, it can always substitute hard work:

It was, we learn, the First «Great Awakening» in the 1740s and 1750s that led to the revolutionary zeal on which our nation's drive for independence was based.

I have long thought that one reason the sex - abuse crisis became so extreme was the lack of zeal on the part of bishops, who put an alleged «compassion» for abusive priests over the obvious welfare of their flocks.

The issue that aroused the greatest public interest and a good deal of irrational zeal on both sides involved the problem of Bible - reading and the saying of prayers in public schools.

Not exact matches

This is passion of a different sort — unbridled enthusiasm, our willingness to pounce on what's in front of us with the full measure of our zeal, the «bundle of energy» that our teachers and gurus have assured us is our most important asset.

On the company's fourth quarter conference call in January, Mayer discussed implementing «rigorous hiring protocols» — a phrase unnamed company employees cited by Reuters say is code for a newfound zeal for high grades and degrees from prestigious universities like Stanford.

As Inwentash tucked into a grilled salami on rye, Cohl talked about technology and music, his voice swelling with the zeal of a showman.

While Castellan says staff morale has always been solid, it took a concerted focus on creating a positive office culture — for example, a weekly Takeover Tuesday initiative, in which an employee's work is praised on the company's social media accounts — to arouse the zeal now on display in its recruiting materials.

But after Trump called out Pakistan on New Year's Day for providing «safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan» and saying «33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years» has «given us nothing but lies & deceit,» it can be expected that the US will resume targeting jihadists with increased zeal in 2018.

This heightened interest is generally an informed one, meaning they're likely more of an expert on the topic than others who don't share their zeal.

Early on, I considered zeal and tenacity two separate success factors.

In their zeal to field the most capable teams hell bent on accomplishing their specific missions, interoperability suffered and the shared mission of the organization was being lost.

It will give you determination to pick yourself up and either try again or move on to the next challenge with zeal.

Many of us are shocked and depressed by the current state of America — its hardness of heart to the most vulnerable; its contempt for the poor; its violence abroad and at home; its corrupt sexual morality; its increasing intolerance and persecutory zeal (with ourselves as targets); and so on.

So for me personally, since I accepted the view without question, I defended it with zeal perceiving any challenge to it as an attack on the church, the moral fabric of my country, and on God Himself.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.

They continued to be good, moral men and women, but somehow the old zeal was cooling; growing pains had dire effects on the heart.

The stress on virtue that we have already noticed — Jefferson's «love of others,» Franklin's «zeal for the public good» — is very close to the biblical archetype, while the stress on self - interest that is also common among the founding fathers suggests the powerful influence of the utilitarian archetype.

I have a great core on top of the paid staff of that are real workers for Christ, that I'm continually blessed by seeing there zeal and heart felt desire to work for God.

But they drew on their zeal and experience from the earlier part of the century to develop the activities of their tract societies into something of a wider interest.

Among the most effective priestly and episcopal leaders in U.S. Catholicism today, there is no antinomy between pastoral compassion and evangelical zeal, on the one hand, and robust Catholic identity, on the other.

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.

However, it will refrain from the arrogance, the bad manners, and the assault on human personality sometimes found in connection with religious zeal.

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.

«Easy on the zeal Churchos... I've got something to say.

The editors, consultants, and advisors listed on the masthead contain a minority who can be identified by their names as Muslims» though in fairness it should be added that some of the others yield nothing to Muslims in their zeal for Islamic values and their sensitivity to Muslim concerns.

As enrollments decline, programs are cut, and tenure diminishes, mainstream educational institutions are becoming uncomfortable places for teachers who want to pass on a zeal for humanist learning.

The early Christian community was indeed a missionary community and the East Syrian church in particular was a church on fire with missionary zeal.

Note that Matthew, in his zeal to work out a literal fulfillment of the prophecy, misreads the Old Testament prophecy, and has Jesus in the awkward situation of riding on two animals at once.

We as humans will experience the waxing and waning of religious zeal for as long as humankind survives on this earth.

Father, in his zeal to finish the cabin before winter, fells a log on the Sabbath and — therefore — breaks his leg.

Father Hermann Geissler of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith believes that Cardinal John Henry Newman's four sermons on the apostolic zeal of St Paul can help all Catholics rediscover their missionary vocation.

Since evangelical zeal seems to have faded on the sixth floor, let me offer some conversion strategies:

Niebuhr felt that it was necessary for U.S. foreign policy to place limits on the expansionist zeal of Communist nations.

The St. John's Bible does much to bring together the Protestant's zeal in printing the text on one hand, and the Catholic care for ecclesial art on the other.

I know a whack of Muslims who have great zeal and they've blown themselves up... a whack of Christians who thought their god was the only god and they slaughtered god's creation because of that... a bunch of Jews who believe god gave them a strip of land on the Mediterranean and will kill to the end to defend it... thank god there are Buddhists who believe there is no god and who just want to zen out.

«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.

But are the only alternatives religious zeal and ideological fanaticism on the one hand, and the absence of moral considerations and political cynicism on the other.

You appear to be zealous for God, but your zeal is not based on knowledge.

This increase is attributable more to the zeal and diligence of the slaves themselves than to the endeavours on our part.

The inner whisperings revealed in the letters cast judgment on today's community of faith, its lack of fervent commitment and sacrificial zeal.

Thus the Hindu nationalist is someone who, through fostering the myth of internal and external threat to national stability and security, places maximum moral value on affirming that India's core consists of the eternal Hindu tenets (loyalty) and defending these with the conviction and zeal of patriotic duty to the country (attachment).

During the course of the decade the militancy of its rhetoric rose as its mass appeal correlatively declined but as is usual in the history of American socialism it was based far more on idealistic zeal than on class interest.

It was a church on fire with great missionary zeal.

This is how the Church reaches Generation Z: not with time - worn religious platitudes but by fueling a zeal that leads to love - in - action for God and on behalf of society.