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The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme. — John Buford

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. — John Perry Barlow

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Love God? Sometimes I hate Him. This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther. — R.C. Sproul

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. — Herman Melville

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. — Dana Goldstein

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles W. Colson

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

Our zeal and passion should be expressed before God rather than before people. — Sunday Adelaja

Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy — David McCullough

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about. — Jeff Bezos

My hat is in the ring. — Theodore Roosevelt

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others — Pope John Paul II

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

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union. — Adam Weishaupt

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains. — Agatha Christie

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel De Montaigne

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

May it never be a footprint that you shall ever say maybe in May. May it instead be a footprint that you shall do your best and rest the rest! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier. — George C. Wallace

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. — Thomas Fuller

Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done! — Conrad III Of Germany

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. — Friedrich Schiller

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak. — John Piper

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. — John Stuart Mill

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

If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal. — R.A. Torrey

Too much zeal offends where indirection works. — Euripides

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing. — Samuel Hahnemann

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

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle

A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. — Robertson Davies

Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Zeal should not outrun discretion. — Aesop

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. — Sir John Davies

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal. — Saint Ignatius

To extend God's kingdom is to be consumed with zeal — Sunday Adelaja

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans — David McCullough

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. — William Cowper

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

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. — Mahatma Gandhi

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal. — Kishore Bansal

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous — Joseph Campbell

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

She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan. — Alan Moore

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions — John Piper

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. — Alexander Pope

The greatest dangers to liberty," said Mr. Brandeis, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. — E.B. White

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you. — Catherine Doherty

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. — John Greenleaf Whittier

May our zeal against abortion be matched by our zeal for adoption. — Scotty Smith

Zeal and duty are not slow
But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. — John Milton

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. — Joseph Heller

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

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. — Elisabeth Elliot

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. — William Shakespeare

I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. - Charles Darwin — Daniel Coyle

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. — Edward G. Robinson

Come, my faux juggernaut, my nefarious loins! Slather every protuberance with arid zeal! — Cassandra Clare

No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God! — John R. Rice

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

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. — John Tillotson

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. — Sholom Rokeach

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. — Charles Buxton

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. — Mahatma Gandhi

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor. — Thomas A Kempis

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

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst! — George Whitefield

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness. — Criss Jami

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal. — Randall Robinson

He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal. — Mark Twain

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. — Gautama Buddha

Be robust enough to work more than a robot! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone. It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich. — Ambrose Bierce

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders. — Marquis De Sade

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

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. — John Locke

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth. — Criss Jami

Zeal will do more than knowledge. — William Hazlitt

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I have more zeal than wit. — Alexander Pope

And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for Your house will consume Me. — Anonymous

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful. — Richard Baxter

Don't be a shallow person. Do everything with zealous devotion, as you would do it for Christ — Sunday Adelaja

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

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined. — Barbara Tuchman

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. — William Zinsser

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. — Martin Farquhar Tupper