Quotes about Seriousness
If I do not mean what I say, I am trifling with God.
— JC Ryle
Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
— Oswald Chambers
God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?
— NT Wright
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
— Desmond Tutu
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
— Oscar Wilde
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
— GK Chesterton
Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
— RC Sproul
The cause of this is not the rage and wickedness of the devil, nor that of the hordes of his Mohammed, but the damnable ingratitude and contempt for the Gospel on the part of those who have it but do not seriously care about it and see to it that they retain it.
— Martin Luther
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
— Richard Baxter
In other words, you can't take the gospel seriously and not take your relationships seriously.
— Timothy Lane
face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This
— RT Kendall
God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.
— Jerry Bridges