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zealous
«Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
guise, mistaken, persecution, piety, religious persecution, shield, zealous
«Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it»
«(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) / I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.»
«Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.»
«People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
People,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
positive, zealous
«And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.»
«Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: / And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.»
«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»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
desert, oases, oasis, parasite, politician, zealous