The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be… — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God implants Spirit and zeal into our hearts in order to accomplish a work. When the work is done, a quiet rest… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I would hope that forgiveness would come to us for any remarks we made, and forgiveness would come to him and to… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.” — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. — Sholom Rokeach Copy Share Image
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness. — Basil Moreau Copy Share Image
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image