Quotes about Seriousness

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.