Zeal Quotes

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.