Zeal Quotes
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zeal is that pure and heavenly flame, The fire of love supplies:;; While that which often bears the name, Is self in a disguise. True zeal is merciful and mild, Can pity and forbear:;; The false is headstrong, fierce and wild, And breathes revenge and war.
john newton— Olney Hymns, Hymn 70: "True and False Zeal"
No one deserves more than he the esteem which he enjoys here. He is a prodigy for his age, full of courage, spirit, judgment, good manners, feelings of generosity and of zeal for the cause of liberty on this continent.
lafayette, gilbert du motier, marquis de— Baron Johann de Kalb, writing to the French War Department, as quoted in George Washington's Generals and Opponents : Their Exploits and Leadership (1994) by George Athan Billias, p. 219
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.
lydia sigourney— Know Thyself
Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is... that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. The zeal for "answers" is the explanation of the zeal for rigid and mechanical methods.
john dewey— Open-mindedness
zeal will do more than knowledge.
william hazlitt— "On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking"
zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
— Meaning: "Uninformed enthusiasm will only lead to disaster."
— Source for meaning: Manser, Martin H. (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 319.
— Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "703". Dictionary of European Proverbs. II. Routledge. p. X.
I shall be very careful to preserve and maintain the Act of Toleration, and to set the minds of all my people at quiet; my own principles must always keep me entirely firm to the interests and religion of the Church of England, and will incline me to countenance those who have the truest zeal to support it.
— Speech from the Throne (25 May 1702), from Cobbett's parliamentary history of England. Volume VI (London: R. Bagshaw, 1810), p. 1671.
For a number of years there has been a righteous discontent, a burning zeal to go forward in His name among the Baptist women of our churches and it will be the dynamic force in the religious campaign at the opening of the 20th century.
— How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping September 1900 National Baptist Convention.
— Speech given at 1900 National Baptist Convention, Richmond Virginia.
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. … Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
Charles Caleb Colton— Lacon, vol. 1 (1820), #17
Hasn’t there … been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.
james richardson— #449 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
Some are jealous of being successors of the Apostles. I would rather be a successor of the Samaritan woman, who, while the Apostles went for meat and forgot souls, forgot her water pot in her zeal to spread the good tidings.
james hudson taylor— (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 69.)
Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.
john green— The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster (2012, p. 33)
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
aldous huxley— Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
samuel johnson— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 613.
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene 2, line 455.
It is only through a burning zeal for the salvation of the lost a zeal glowing in the heart, and flashing out in the look and action and utterance that the confidence of unbelief can be overcome, and the heedless travelers of the broad way won to the path of life and happiness. Love is the most potent logic; interest and sympathy are the most subduing eloquence.
— The Christian at Work, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 625.
A zealous soul without meekness is like a ship in a storm, in danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought.
— John M. Mason, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 625.
But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 849.
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
— Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock, heading of Chapter XVII.
Press bravely onward! not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, To the Reformers of England.
Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal? Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories, And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, [[The Dunciad'' (1728 to 1743), Book I, line 209.
From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.
— Sir Robert Hutchison, 20th century physician, British Medical Journal, 1953; 1: 671.
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
william cowper— William Cowper, Charity, line 533.
A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for, Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest. Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal, It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven! To effect this I shall work now and ever more.
— Vohu-Khshathra Gatha; Yasna 51, 1.
zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
Herman Melville— Supplement (Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860))
zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epigram III, line 261.
