Talk:Zeal

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• I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
  • Joseph Addison

• If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
  • Joseph Addison

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

• Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other.
  • Joseph Addison

• The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
  • Francis Bacon

• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
  • Hosea Ballou

• Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
  • Isaac Barrow

• Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
  • Gautama Buddha

• There are zealots for slavery as well as zealots for freedom.
  • William Henry Burleigh

• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
  • Charles Buxton

• True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
  • Ralph Cudworth

• It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.
  • Sydney Thompson Dobell

• Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
  • John Dryden

• Zeal without humility is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
  • Owen Feltham

• It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
  • Henry Fielding

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

• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
  • Kahlil Gibran

• Zeal will do more than knowledge.
  • William Hazlitt

• Zeal, unless it be rightly guided, when it endeavors the most busily to please God, forceth upon Him those unseasonable offices which please Him not.
  • Richard Hooker

• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
  • Thomas Henry Huxley

• A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
  • Thomas Jefferson

• The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
  • Samuel Johnson

• Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them."
  • Richard Mant

• A father or a brother may be hated zealously, and loved civilly or naturally.
  • John Milton

• Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
  • Moliere

• Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
  • Isaac Newton

• It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity.
  • Blaise Pascal

• Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
  • Blaise Pascal

• The zeal of fools offends at any time.
  • Alexander Pope

• Tell zeal it lacks devotion.
  • Sir Walter Raleigh

• People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
  • Bertrand Russell

• A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
  • Sir Philip Sidney

• Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.
  • Thomas Sprat

• Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.
  • Jonathan Swift

• Not too much zeal.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

• He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
  • Jeremy Taylor

• Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
  • John Tillotson

• Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
  • John Tillotson
  • Variant: Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools.

• The good which bloodshed could not gain your peaceful zeal shall find.
  • John Greenleaf Whittier