Religious Zeal Quotes

#1. The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

Roxane Gay

#2. He was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.

Charles McCarry

#4. He believes in No-God, and he worships him, said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

William James

#5. Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Randall Robinson

#6. She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan.

Alan Moore

#7. Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.

Laurence Bergreen

#8. Love God? Sometimes I hate Him. This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther.

R.C. Sproul

#9. I have an almost religious zeal ... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Dan Millman

#10. For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

#11. A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

Kathryn Kuhlman

#12. One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning

Neil Gaiman

#13. He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it.
The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus?

Jonah Books

#15. What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

Christopher Reeve

#16. I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

Barry M. Goldwater

#17. Promises are easy to make. [...] They speak of a defined future to which you are required to adhere. They commit you beyond the length of your experience.

What they do is take away possibility.

Promises are the opposite of hope.

Joshua Gaylord

#18. The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a highercaste, not ennobled by birth, however, but by deliberate self-initiation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#19. In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

Stephen L. Carter

#20. You can hear now. Your inner ear is formed.
I shout "I love you" into the bedroom. Then I feel stupid. Then I don't. This is pretty much the story of my life.

Suzanne Finnamore

#21. You can't force someone to love you, especially when you're incapable of loving them in return.

Micalea Smeltzer

#22. that had ended years ago; some as far back as

Ann Walker

#23. I have a really good life and I really like it.

Jessa Crispin

#24. 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.

Richard K. Morgan

#25. He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.

Joan D. Vinge