Quotes about Earnest

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

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

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

How could you speak of life and death with such a heart? How could you preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner? Do you believe what you say? Are you in earnest or in jest? How can you tell people that sin is such a thing, and that so much misery is upon them and before them and not be more affected with it? Shouldn't you weep over such a people, and shouldn't your tears interrupt your words?

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

But forasmuch as the Passage was wonderful narrow ... it showed me that none could enter into Life, but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left this wicked World behind them; for here was only room for Body and Soul, but not for Body and Soul, and Sin.

Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing. The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reached internally, not externally. The giving up of only external things may actually be an indication of your being in total bondage.

Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.