Earnestly Quotes
162 quotes by 132 authors
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived;…
— David Brainerd
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to…
— Susan B. Anthony
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
— C.S. Lewis
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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be…
— Heber J. Grant
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The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers…
— Rachel Bloom
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
— J C Ryle
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
— Dwight L. Moody
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I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape,…
— Adoniram Judson
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Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue;…
— Paul of the Cross
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
— Martin Luther
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
— John Keats
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Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made,…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both…
— Arthur Keith
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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
— Ellen Glasgow
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I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where…
— Ravi Zacharias
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the…
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly…
— John Stuart Mill
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