quotations about zeal
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
CHARLES HODGE
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Princeton Sermons: Outlines of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical
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It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologica
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True zeal is a heavenly flame.
W. YATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
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Undeniably bad examples of zeal ... do not establish that all zeal is bad, but only that not all zeal is good--which is not in dispute.
DAVID A. HORNER & DAVID R. TURNER
"Zeal", Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life
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Zeal is an enchantment.
ZAMOYSKI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
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Zeal in good cause is just.
C. P. VILLIERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
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Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
ISAAC BARROW
attributed, Day's Collacon
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When the grace of God has wrought in a man all other virtues, zeal is still needed to elevate and perfect his entire manhood.
ROBERT AITKIN BERTRAM & ALFRED TUCKER
A Homiletical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah
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Zeal is charismatic, and it is hard to not wish these individuals success.
JOSEPH NICOLLS
"A Local Battle For The Radical Soul", The Stanford Review, January 21, 2016
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To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
HENRY HOME KAMES
Elements of Criticism
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Philanthropic zeal supplies admirable motive power, but makes a very indifferent compass; and of two evils it is better, perhaps, that our ship shall go nowhere than that it shall go wrong, that it should stand still than that it should run upon the rocks.
ARTHUR BALFOUR
Essays and Addresses
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Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.
WALLACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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Zeal is an ardent and vehement love, it requires guidance; otherwise it can become excessive.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
Treatise on the Love of God
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Zeal is to be regarded as a cloak that covers all. The Christian man is to wear zeal as we wear an outward garment which covers all the rest of our garments--a flowing robe which encompasses the entire person.
ROBERT AITKIN BERTRAM & ALFRED TUCKER
A Homiletical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah
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