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Zeal is a good thing if balanced, but unbalanced zeal is a flaw, which as frequently becomes a social problem as a social help. Unbalanced zeal often leads people to impulsive, poor or even abusive decisions. "I did it to protect you" is often cited as a justification both online and offline for fanatical, excessive or unwarranted behavior.
Leisure fanaticism – high levels of intensity, enthusiasm, commitment and zeal shown for a particular leisure activity; Nationalistic or patriotic fanaticism; Political, ideological fanaticism. Religious fanaticism – considered by some to be the most extreme form of religious fundamentalism. Entail promoting religious point of views
Religious fanaticism or religious extremism is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.
Recognizing this loop is crucial in modifying habits, whether they’re good or bad. #4. Shaking/vibrating your leg when you have to be sitting for a long time, gets the blood moving, better than ...
Zeal may refer to: Zealotry, fanaticism. Zeal of the convert; Diligence, the theological virtue opposite to acedia; Zeal (horse), race horse; Zeal (surname) Zeal (web), an internet directory; Zeal Monachorum, a village in Devon; South Zeal, village in Devon; USS Zeal (AM-131), a U.S. Navy minesweeper; Zeal, an Air New Zealand subsidiary
The zeal of the convert is a term describing the very fervent devotion to new beliefs, which are completely different from one's old beliefs. [1] [2] [3] For example, Paul the Apostle, formally known as Saul of Tarsus was a Jewish Pharisees who persecuted Christians until he had a life changing vision on the road to Damascus and became a Christian missionary who spent his life spreading ...
This zeal may also explain his later confrontations, such as the incident at Antioch, even after his conversion [15] [16] [17] In the two cited verses Paul literally declares himself as one who is loyal to God, or an ardent observer of the Law according to the Douay-Rheims of Acts 22:3, but the relationship of Paul the Apostle and Jewish ...
Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈ x ʊ t s p ə, ˈ h ʊ t-/) [1] [2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes " hubris ". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh ( חֻצְפָּה ), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity".