Earnestness Quotes - Page 5

• My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

  John Woolman

  Broken Heart, Desire, Helping

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Heart, Humility, Winning

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• We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Perfect, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Hair, High Heels, Goal

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• All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Sobriety, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

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• You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?" My father shook his head. "What if two people told you?" Another shake. Ben leaned forward on his stump. "What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating-" "Of course I wouldn't believe them," my father said, irritated. "It's ridiculous." "Of course it is," Ben agreed, raising a finger. "But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Father, Real, Believe

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• Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Dedication, Demand, Path

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 30, 2013

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• Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Age, Want

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• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Cat, Hands

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

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• I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Want, Tests, Sincerity

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Fashion, Silly

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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• A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Nimble, Wit

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8848, Delphi Classics

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• The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Doe, Assistants

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 28, 1846.

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• If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

  Richard Allen

  Hands, White, People

  Richard Allen (1880). “The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is Annexed, the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793 : with an Address to the People of Color in the United States”

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• Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Observers

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Pap VI B 120:13), 1845.

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• Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Rifles, Oratory

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

  Hermann Adler

  Children, Mean, Gains

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, pp. 78-79, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Eloquence, Compunction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 458), 1895.

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• Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

  Marc Webb

  Sentimentality

  "Interview: Marc Webb Talks 500 Days Of Summer, Cheesy Vs. Lame, Zooey, And Sundance". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. July 17, 2009.

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• God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  God, Sacred, Fit

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.230

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• ... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Past, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.232, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spiritual, Determination, Adventure

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Light, Government

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.160, A&C Black

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