Earnestness Quotes - Page 2

• A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

  John Sterling

  Believe, School, Men

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.151

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• This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, World, He Man

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 205, 1895.

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• Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

  Corita Kent

  Inspirational, Sincerity

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• Time and pains will do anything.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Pain

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.53

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• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Missionary, Study

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.18, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Heart, Brain, Mind

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• If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

  Timothy Keller

  Salvation, Ifs

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• The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Saint, Firsts

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press

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• Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Enthusiasm, Intoxication

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• How do you go about finding anything?
  By keeping your mind and heart on it.
  Interest there must be and steady remembrance.
  To remember what needs to be remembered
  is the secret of success.
  You come to it through earnestness

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Remembrance, Secret

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• Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

  Gillian Flynn

  Kryptonite, People, Ironic

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.281, Broadway Books

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• It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Truth, Book, Learning

  "Sermons".

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• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Buddhist, Block, Two

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• I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He thought for a moment, then corrected himself. 'Two million dollars!' he added.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Two, Dollars

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the Brahmos. The Mussalmans and Christians will realize Him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere.

  Ramakrishna

  Christian, Realizing, Sincerity

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

  Scott Morrison

  Life, Honesty, Humility

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• Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.

  Ibn Hazm

  Heart, Love Is, Reality

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• Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers...
  ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Grief, Heart

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• In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

  Carl Jung

  World, Kind

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.33, North Atlantic Books

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• Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Moving, Heart, Ties

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• The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Home, Fighting, Reality

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1871). “Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.”, p.235

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• Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

  Heinrich Böll

  Seriousness

  Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press

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• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Sincerity, Bores

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Numbers

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• Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Method

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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