Fervency

But I haste to the qualifications of this divine work, — fervency, reverence, and confidence; _fervency_ in crying, _reverence and confidence_ in crying, “Abba, Father;” for these two suit well toward our ❋ Hugh Binning (1640)

Teamwork is the most important element of any army, so I’d wager my executive bonus that these shirts were accurate depictions of the mindset of that unit, and were likely also intended to impress superiors with their rabid fervency which is especially acute in graduates just out of basic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Poor parent, poor shattered schoolteacher, wherever you look in the general welter of 21st-century-consumer-kid-dom, there it is: cadmium yellow, Cheerios-box yellow, yellowcake yellow, striking its inhuman note of fervency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As energy continued to rise, Hindi expertly disturbed the quiet with fervency, and set the stage ablaze with rock and roll panache on "Set Me Free" and "Music." ❋ Turnstyle (2011)

Armed with only the fervency of her beliefs, Redwood started an online mailing list devoted to mercury and autism. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

Did his petitions lack the usual fervency and intention? ❋ Rabbi Jason Miller (2012)

You don't find the fervency of religious extremism here as in, say, Pakistan. ❋ Matthew Kaminski (2011)

With a fervency and quality he could never bring to the light of day. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)

It comes back to me now, as the plane slowly banks, how we congregate in the Belfield Bar on a Friday night, to drink the two or three pints we are able to afford, and to talk with such fervency about Nicaragua. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the spiritual leaders of their faith community sent them out with a missional benediction -- such as "Go forth to love and serve the Lord in your home, neighborhood, and workplace" -- the message wasn't conveyed with sufficient fervency to get their attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I beg to differ, and I do so because I believe, with the fervency of a red-meat Teabagger at a town hall, that ideas -- like some of the ones we will hear this week in Aspen -- are the only thing that can get us out of this mess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How many times I knelt at altars and begged God for a fervency, an overcoming of the power of the Holy Spirit, a sense of abandonment that would make me willing to take up the cross to follow him. ❋ Alex Tang (2010)

Most of the power, fervency and soapy compulsion survives in this new restoration of Fred Zinnemann's 1953 Oscar-winner From Here To Eternity. ❋ Unknown (2010)