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  • Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

  • Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.

  • Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.

  • A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

    Country   Powerful   Hero  
    Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.22, Applewood Books
  • In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

    Garden   Sowing   Digging  
    Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”
  • The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.

    "Contributions to the Theory of Games IV, Annals of Mathematics Study 40". Book edited by A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, 1959.
  • Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

    John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic
  • It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

    School   College   Lakes  
  • God implants Spirit and zeal into our hearts in order to accomplish a work. When the work is done, a quiet rest remains. We do not have to push one another aside because God has prepared our works so that each one can keep out of one another's way. We only have to take heed that we do His works.

  • If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

    Men   Compassion   Mercy  
  • It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says; that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity.

    Mean   People   Soul  
    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”
  • He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

    Heart   Ties   Together  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.85
  • The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

    Letter to Alexander Bain, 14 July 1869, in Hugh S. R. Elliot (ed.) 'Letters of John Stuart Mill' vol. 2 (1910)
  • The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

    Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”
  • I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  • If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

    Doctrine   Way   Hell  
  • The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that they had actually seen, talked with and eaten with the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ had not really risen and had not appeared to the apostles, would they all have died for a lie?

    Christian   Jesus   Lying  
  • As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

    Wall   Ipods   Cds  
  • Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.

    Art   Health   Science  
  • Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

    College   Soul   Nails  
    Thomas Hood, “Ode To Rae Wilson Esq.”
  • When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

    Ambition   Two   Mad  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.211, JHU Press
  • It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

    D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.358, Harper Collins
  • Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

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

    Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
  • Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

    Peace   War   Principles  
  • The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

    New York   Revenge   Team  
  • Zeal should not outrun discretion.

    Should   Zeal   Outrun  
    Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.17, Lulu.com
  • Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

    'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 3, l. 173
  • A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.

    Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30”, p.449
  • Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.

    Hope   Honesty   Lying  
    Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 7, 1503.
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