quotations about zeal
Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone.
ANTHONY MWAMI
The Alphabet of Your Life
Zeal in good cause is just.
C. P. VILLIERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Zeal is an edge-tool, which children in understanding should not meddle withal; and yet it most frequently possesseth the weakest minds.
JOHN TILLOTSON
Works
Zeal in the service of God is no miraculous gift, no extraordinary prerogative of some peculiar favorite of heaven, but the natural and inseparable property of a will-confirmed habit of holiness.
R. LUCAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Zeal is one of the dynamic forces for accomplishment. This is more than talk, more than declaration and perception; it is putting your entire being into what you are doing for maximum output.
BILSON KINGS
Glorious Provision
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
Princeton Sermons: Outlines of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologica
Too much zeal spoils all.
DIOCLETIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
We want to be sure that our zeal is for the right purpose.
DARRELL PINKERTON
"Lamp Unto Our Feet", The Pike County News Watchman, January 4, 2016
We all have some idea of what zeal is, for to a certain degree we are all zealots. The question is not whether we are zealous but what we are zealous for.
JOEL BEEKE
"What Is Zeal?", Meet the Puritans, February 19, 2016
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Christian Ethics", The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
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
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
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
Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.
WALLACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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