quotations about zeal
Blindfolded zeal can only do harm.
LICHTWER
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attributed, Day's Collacon
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
PASQUIER QUESNEL
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
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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
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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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It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologica
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Zeal is twin-brother to faith.
A. C. URCEUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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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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False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.
CHARLES TOMLINSON
Essays Old and New
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Zeal is the zealot's happiness.
EPAPHRODITUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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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
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Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
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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
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Your zeal will often determine your outcome.
J. LEE GRADY
"8 Ways to Recharge Your Prayer Life", Charisma News, September 15, 2016
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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
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We all have some idea of what zeal is, for to a certain degree we are all zealots. The question is not whether we are zealous but what we are zealous for.
JOEL BEEKE
"What Is Zeal?", Meet the Puritans, February 19, 2016
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I was opposed to the kind of zeal that incited men to fighting and killing, and I supported that zeal which inspires men to imitate our Savior.
JOHN EDWARD BEAHN
A Man of Good Zeal: A Biographical Novel Based on the Life of Saint Francis De Sales
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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
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Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone.
ANTHONY MWAMI
The Alphabet of Your Life
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Too much zeal spoils all.
DIOCLETIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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