Robert Ellis Thompson Quotes

THOMPSON, Robert Ellis Quotes

(1844-1924), American economist

Zeal

It is the living, present apprehension of God that makes the Christian zealot, as it made the Jewish.—It is the admixture of ignoble, selfish, narrow or confused notions with that apprehension, which degrades and debases that zeal, and in the end destroys it.

All true zeal for God is a zeal also for love, mercy, and goodness.