We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it,… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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