Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!
— Charles Spurgeon
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
— JC Ryle
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill
They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.
— Emily Bronte
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.