Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
. . . a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence. . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.