#zeal

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#racism #unity #zealotry #religion

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. ↗

— Norman G. Finkelstein

#christopher-hitchens #conversion #politics #rationality #reason

Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#zealotry #respect

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#before #comes #i #models #never

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. ↗

— Roland Allen

#beliefs #does #grow #help #him

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#divine #former #human #latter #never

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. ↗

— Larry Bird

#conclusion #course #day #directions #discard

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer. ↗

— Lewis Black

#closer #hop #i #i believe #islands

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#arrow #bad #bow #clothes #could