We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.
There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal,
The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.
There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
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.
I always keep a zeal to learn new things especially when I am not aware about it.
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.
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
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.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
The resilience, tenacity and zeal of our valiant air warriors is a source of pride for every Indian.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
In their ideological zeal, the feminists of the illiberal left don't seem to realize how they've given feminism a bad name.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
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.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
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!
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.
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