Over Zealous Quotes

#1. The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

Sara Harrison

#2. Get shot down cuz your over zealous, play hard to get and females get jealous.

Young MC

#3. Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Edmund Burke

#4. I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Edmund Burke

#6. It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.

Claire Messud

#8. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Khalil Gibran

#9. Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#10. I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

Stephen Baldwin

#11. He later came to love. Then God hijacked his life. The zealous Pharisee became the apostle with the gospeled heart. So of course he would say, "To live is Christ." In the logic of the gospel, there are no alternatives to Christ. Every other

Matt Chandler

#12. When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

Richard Dawkins

#13. 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.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#14. 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.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#15. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the "currency" of our good works is debased and worthless before God.

Jerry Bridges

#16. 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.

Theophan The Recluse

#17. If our life is built on God's standards and we are responsible and zealous for the things of the kingdom, then we will have persistent success in life and wealth, which will not bring tears

Sunday Adelaja

#18. It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

George MacDonald Fraser

#19. Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

Mitch Albom

#20. Don't be a shallow person. Do everything with zealous devotion, as you would do it for Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#21. When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

William Shakespeare

#22. Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Tacitus

#23. The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

Joseph Addison

#26. 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.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#27. Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

J.I. Packer

#28. The beer came and I said, "Joe, I'm thinking that there is something larger here than an attorney's zealous defense of his client." The master of understatement.

Robert Crais

#29. So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

Samuel Johnson

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

William Shakespeare

#31. Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.

Stefan Zweig

#32. To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

Gary Hamel

#33. I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

Yannis Philippakis

#34. Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

Frederick Douglass

#35. A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#36. A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

J.C. Ryle