Zeal Quotes

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.

Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination to live according to the Spirit of God. Just as salvation of the world is by the Cross of God, so our salvation is by our crucifixion on our own cross.

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

New Zealand looks like the future to me

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Cynicism has its own zealots.

I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.