The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Desperation is not a function of zeal or enthusiasm but a product of despair.

Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

We sleepwalked, ... We didn't have any emotion. We just haven't shown any enthusiasm, not today, not for the last three weeks ... Last week, Cincinnati came out and they were really aggressive -- like we used to be. It was the same this week.