Quotes about Earnestness

When you read God's Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking, it is I about whom it is speaking—this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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

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

The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!