Quotes about Earnestness

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

How many souls have been lost for lack of earnestness, solemnity, and love in the preacher, even when the words uttered were precious and true!

Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

God does not hear us because we pray earnestly— He hears us solely on the basis of redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness.

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

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

True earnestness is found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is born of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every project into captivity, but are doing work for God at the instigation of their own human nature which has not been spiritualised by determined discipline.

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!

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

How safe for the preserving of heavenly grace to fly from human approval, and not to long after the things which seem to win admiration abroad, but to follow with all earnestness those things which bring amendment of life and heavenly fervour!

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.