Men Quote by Richard Baxter

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

— Richard Baxter

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

— Joseph Addison

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

— D. A. Carson

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for…

— Walter Raleigh

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

— Charles Tomlinson

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

— Mario Puzo

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

— Thomas a Kempis

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

— Anonymous

The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means by which…

— James Petigru Boyce

One sin another doth provoke.

— William Shakespeare

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis