Zeal Zeal, being love in action, just on that account tends to remove as far as lies in its power all that is injurious or hostile to the object of its love; it has thus its antipathies as well as its attractions. Zeal, (From delos, a derivative of deo “to boil”, to “throb with...
Zeal: The Fourth Lively Virtue Zeal reveals to us all the difference between a world grown merely secular and old, and the youthfulness of Christian love. When Dante and Virgil enter the fourth ring of the winding path up Purgatory Mountain, they meet a band of souls weeping and racing...
Zeal Is The Virtue Zeal is the virtue that breeds the greatest amount of distrust. There are chiefly two reasons for this. One is historical, the other contemporary. We look with dark suspicion upon those Christians of yore whose zeal was unaccompanied by moderation, prudence, or even common sense. The...