When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths but rather cry with more earnestness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. — William James Copy Share Image
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right. — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
“You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness," said old Roger Chillingworth, smiling at him.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. — Miranda Raison Copy Share Image
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
I was a very earnest child. I was not funny. I would get laughed at for my earnestness, so I learned to… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
... 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
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation… — Frederick W Robertson Copy Share Image
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to other people or pain to… — William James Copy Share Image
You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I think of the way James proposed, at our favorite New York City restaurant. He'd tucked the ring in his pocket and… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
