Zeal Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Heart, Pride

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• We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Giving, Want

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  Henry Rollins

  Jealous, Pride, Degradation

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• Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  Charles Hodge (2004). “Conference Papers”, p.284, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Frank Murphy

  Liberty, Agents, Priceless

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• The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

  Dale Ahlquist

  Atheist, Admirable

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

  William Cowper

  Giving, Reform, Charity

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.108

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• One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughing, Healthy, Details

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.202, Vintage

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• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Godly, Greatness

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• Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.899, Delphi Classics

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• Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

  John William Fletcher

  Children, Father, Philosophical

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

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

  Hugh Nibley

  Mean, Past, Illusions Of Grandeur

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but by zeal for Christ - zeal for His church - zeal for the carrying on of His work on earth.

  Horatius Bonar

  Party, Believe, Men

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• The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Voice, Expression, Catholic

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• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Massacres, Commerce

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.202, Random House

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• False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

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• There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Independent, Atheism, Pestilence

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.70

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• Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Rights, Political Opinions

  Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

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• Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Illumination, Atheism, Fagots

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

  Hugh Nibley

  Knowledge, Doors, Doe

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Appreciation, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

  D. A. Carson

  Passion, Temptation, Sin

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.358, Harper Collins

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• Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Team, Commitment, Impact

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• When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

  Ronald Knox

  Believe, Doe, Racist

  'Absolute and Abitofhell' (1913)

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