quotations about zeal
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
Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone.
ANTHONY MWAMI
The Alphabet of Your Life
Your zeal will often determine your outcome.
J. LEE GRADY
"8 Ways to Recharge Your Prayer Life", Charisma News, September 15, 2016
True zeal is a heavenly flame.
W. YATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Zeal in good cause is just.
C. P. VILLIERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
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
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
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
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
Zeal is an enchantment.
ZAMOYSKI
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
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 ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.
WALLACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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