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
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
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. — Philip Sidney 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
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
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
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another,… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work,… — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
I long to see Christians get beyond themselves and start seeing the glory of God as it pertains to their own life.… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . .… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. — David Sedaris 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
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
“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.” — Mishi McCoy 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
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
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. — Robertson Davies 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
Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
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