True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. — Ralph Cudworth 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
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. — Sholom Rokeach 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
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
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
“One of the characters is admired by someone who admires no one else in life because he "gets this song in life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and… — Isaac of Nineveh 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
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
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“What a pleasure it is to be in the company of a writer with enthusiasm for his subject! It doesn't matter what… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.” — Mishi McCoy 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
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. — David Sedaris 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
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
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated… — Joseph Brant Copy Share Image
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
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