quotations about zeal
Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone.
ANTHONY MWAMI
The Alphabet of Your Life
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
Your zeal will often determine your outcome.
J. LEE GRADY
"8 Ways to Recharge Your Prayer Life", Charisma News, September 15, 2016
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
HENRY HOME KAMES
Elements of Criticism
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
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
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
Too much zeal spoils all.
DIOCLETIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Zeal in good cause is just.
C. P. VILLIERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Zeal is an enchantment.
ZAMOYSKI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Philanthropic zeal supplies admirable motive power, but makes a very indifferent compass; and of two evils it is better, perhaps, that our ship shall go nowhere than that it shall go wrong, that it should stand still than that it should run upon the rocks.
ARTHUR BALFOUR
Essays and Addresses
When the grace of God has wrought in a man all other virtues, zeal is still needed to elevate and perfect his entire manhood.
ROBERT AITKIN BERTRAM & ALFRED TUCKER
A Homiletical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah
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 is to be regarded as a cloak that covers all. The Christian man is to wear zeal as we wear an outward garment which covers all the rest of our garments--a flowing robe which encompasses the entire person.
ROBERT AITKIN BERTRAM & ALFRED TUCKER
A Homiletical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah
Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.
WALLACE
attributed, Day's Collacon