quotations about zeal
Blindfolded zeal can only do harm.
LICHTWER
attributed, Day's Collacon
To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.
AL-KENDI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
PASQUIER QUESNEL
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
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
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
JEREMY BENTHAM
The Works of Jeremy Bentham
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
Zeal is twin-brother to faith.
A. C. URCEUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.
CHARLES TOMLINSON
Essays Old and New
Zeal is the zealot's happiness.
EPAPHRODITUS
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
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologica
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
ISAAC BARROW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
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
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
Zeal is one of the dynamic forces for accomplishment. This is more than talk, more than declaration and perception; it is putting your entire being into what you are doing for maximum output.
BILSON KINGS
Glorious Provision
True zeal is a heavenly flame.
W. YATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
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 an edge-tool, which children in understanding should not meddle withal; and yet it most frequently possesseth the weakest minds.
JOHN TILLOTSON
Works