ZEAL QUOTES II

quotations about zeal

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

PASQUIER QUESNEL

attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts


There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

JEREMY BENTHAM

The Works of Jeremy Bentham

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To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

AL-KENDI

attributed, Day's Collacon


True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

CHARLES HODGE

Princeton Sermons: Outlines of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical


Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

ISAAC BARROW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Blindfolded zeal can only do harm.

LICHTWER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Zeal is charismatic, and it is hard to not wish these individuals success.

JOSEPH NICOLLS

"A Local Battle For The Radical Soul", The Stanford Review, January 21, 2016


When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient

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Zeal is twin-brother to faith.

A. C. URCEUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Zeal is accompanied with the direct sanction of Heaven. O Christian! it is thy God, that says -- 'Be zealous' -- all Nature repeats the sound, all Nature rebukes thy negligence.

JOSEPH HUGHES

Christian Zeal: A Sermon


Undeniably bad examples of zeal ... do not establish that all zeal is bad, but only that not all zeal is good--which is not in dispute.

DAVID A. HORNER & DAVID R. TURNER

"Zeal", Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life


We want to be sure that our zeal is for the right purpose.

DARRELL PINKERTON

"Lamp Unto Our Feet", The Pike County News Watchman, January 4, 2016


False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

CHARLES TOMLINSON

Essays Old and New


But the most general excess which runs, so to speak, in the blood of Christian ethics, arises from the overflow of zeal without knowledge, at one time boiling over in floods of the most savage intolerance, at another ossified into the rigid features of the most unrelenting bigotry. This is an evil which springs naturally from the connexion of morality with religion; and it is an evil of so enormous a magnitude that it seems in some sort to supply an excuse for those inadequate ethical systems of recent growth which take no cognisance of the reverential and devout instincts of human nature, and, after the model of Aristotle, would build up an architecture of Ethics without piety.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

Four Phases of Morals

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True zeal is a heavenly flame.

W. YATES

attributed, Day's Collacon


May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

JOHN WESLEY

Sermons on Several Occasions

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Zeal is an ardent and vehement love, it requires guidance; otherwise it can become excessive.

SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES

Treatise on the Love of God


Zeal in the service of God is no miraculous gift, no extraordinary prerogative of some peculiar favorite of heaven, but the natural and inseparable property of a will-confirmed habit of holiness.

R. LUCAS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone.

ANTHONY MWAMI

The Alphabet of Your Life


Too much zeal spoils all.

DIOCLETIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon