Quotes about Seriousness

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most

There is hell now, and there is hell later, and Jesus teaches us to take both seriously.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

Everyone who must contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game.