A Quote by Richard Leider

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

Richard Leider

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Richard Leider
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Born: July 3, 1944

Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.

Julia Cameron

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

Jon Gordon

If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can't be filled with impure thoughts.

David Jeremiah

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Adam Clarke

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

Adam Clarke

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

Joseph Campbell

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Ken Burns

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

Dwight L. Moody

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Saint Augustine

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Peter Kreeft

Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

Neil T Anderson

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

D. A. Carson

One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.

F. E. Marsh

A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.