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My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive… — Elisabeth Elliot
My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not — Dalai Lama
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the… — Ramakrishna
May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest — Charles Spurgeon
...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to come, which no… — Gregory Palamas
Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste… — Gregory Palamas
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love… — Charles Spurgeon
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and… — Thomas Nelson Page
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular… — Elbert Hubbard
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'. — Walton Goggins
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that… — Adolph Ochs
There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not… — Joseph Pulitzer
It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be… — Griffith John
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to… — Robert Dale Owen
If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in… — David Pogue
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is… — Charles Dickens
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to… — Witness Lee
[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of… — Vincent de Paul
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as… — John Paul Stevens
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. — Marshall McLuhan

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