1.
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.
Basil Moreau
2.
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius
4.
Zeal should not outrun discretion.
Aesop
6.
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
John Dryden
9.
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
Blaise Pascal
10.
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
Isaac Barrow
11.
The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.
Dale Ahlquist
12.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquier Quesnel
14.
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Friedrich Schiller
16.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Moliere
17.
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
Joseph Addison
18.
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
with a love of justice against offenders.
Henry Fielding
19.
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
Thomas Aquinas
20.
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison
22.
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
Barbara Tuchman
23.
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
John Stuart Mill
24.
Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
Euripides
25.
We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.
Thomas a Kempis
27.
We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
Thomas a Kempis
28.
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Alexander Pope
30.
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
Herman Melville