Zeal Quotes - Page 14

• There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

  Junius

  Political, Politics, Holy

  'Public Advertiser' 19 December 1769, Letter 35

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• If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Father, Humility, Order

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• A move of the Spirit of God is coming to the Catholic Church. The youth in particular will be ignited with a fresh fire of zeal and passion for Christ and His Gospel. A radical company of Believers will arise in the Catholic Church during this move, and they will release a flow of God's love and truth into the nations.

  Patricia King

  Moving, Passion, Fire

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• Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Succeed, Causes

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.

  Garry Kasparov

  Iran, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance.

  Basil Moreau

  Perseverance, Teacher, Desire

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• Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.

  Samuel Adams

  Art, War, Luxury

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• It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says; that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity.

  Vincent de Paul

  Mean, People, Soul

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
  with a love of justice against offenders.

  Henry Fielding

  Justice, Inspired, Offenders

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.692, Delphi Classics

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• The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Around the Wicket Gate”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Contention, Effects, Seems

  Thomas Aquinas (2015). “Summa Theologica”, p.288, Xist Publishing

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• Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

  George C. Wallace

  Soldier, Shields

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• Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Waiting, Rising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.352, Library of America

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• 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

  Ignorance, Self, Failing

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  John Lennon

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Emotion, Sometimes

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 2, ch. 5, sect. 1

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• A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.

  James Madison

  Party, Passion, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Christian, Kings, Hate

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, Letter No. 60, 1721.

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• No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

  Stephen King

  Artist, Knives, Names

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.

  Fethullah Gulen

  School, Thinking, Organization

  Source: gulenlibrary.org

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• With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Understanding, Needs, Who We Are

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• Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

  William Cowper

  Despair, Milk, Purpose

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.78

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