"Fervency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... merry when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. ...
— Antony and Cleopatra • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... of fire which sat on the believers on the day of Pentecost represented a very real something which from henceforth would be manifested in their lives. It is not my purpose here to enter into an explanation of the Baptist's words. I wish to speak only of the fervency which fire represents as it should characterize our lives. The life that has in it no fervency has little or nothing of God. The soul that is vigorous in God is a soul full of power. We need to be "on fire" for God, and there are three ways in which ...
— Heart Talks • Charles Wesley Naylor
... my heart!" exclaimed Hendon with a fervency which showed that he was touched. The King added, with the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... inoculates the entire spiritual being, poisoning the will and making spiritual activity most disagreeable. Not only does it destroy the will of the soul, but it blindfolds the eyes so that the individual can see no necessity for great fervency in spirit or for diligence in spiritual exercise. In a half-dazed manner he acknowledges that the "watchings often" and "fastings often" and "praying always" of the apostle Paul were very consistent in him, ...
— How to Live a Holy Life • C. E. Orr
... mentioned in Theodora's prayer, from infancy. It was the plural number, but the strength and fervency of petition were reserved for one; and with him she now joined the name of his child. But how pray for the son without the mother? It was positively a struggle; for Theodora had a horror of mockery and formality; but the duty was too clear, the evil which made it distasteful, ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
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