Zeal Quotes
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
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.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
