Earnestness Quotes

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

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.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

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.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.