Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches…

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

— John Dryden

This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It…

— Alexander Hamilton

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

— Charles Colson

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a…

— Anne Sexton

If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if…

— John Piper

Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at…

— John Wesley

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

— Sholom Rokeach

The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love…

— Charles Spurgeon

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

— John Stuart Mill

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

— Anonymous

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

— Maria Montessori

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing…

— Joseph Addison

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

— Thomas a Kempis

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

— Martin Luther

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the…

— J. I. Packer