Zealous Quotations

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

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

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

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

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.