Quotes About Zeal

Zeal implied a strict adherence to the Torah and the Law, a refusal to serve any foreign master—to serve any human master at all—and an uncompromising devotion to the sovereignty of God.

Zeal, the spirit that had fueled the revolutionary fervor of the bandits, prophets, and messiahs, was now coursing through the population like a virus working its way through the body.

His lack of condemnatory zeal gave him a reputation in the religious hierarchy that ensured he would always remain a humble teacher in a backwater town.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.1

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

Obsession is a young man's game.

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

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.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.