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Tag Name "Earnestness" (76)

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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
Hannah More
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
William James
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I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind. Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Geoff Dyer
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You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from just people's acquired bitterness over experiences.
Seth Green
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It is not the number of books you read nor the variety of sermons which you hear nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.
Frederick William Robertson
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Marc Webb
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We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
Charles Colson
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We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
C. S. Lewis
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
Gillian Flynn
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Up, then, with speed, and work Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!
Horatius Bonar
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Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.
Thomas Guthrie
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The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.
Todd Haynes
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Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law for every heart is in God's hands.
Ibn Hazm
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Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
Corita Kent
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Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.
B. C. Forbes
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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
Frederick William Robertson
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The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
Horace Mann
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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 Brahmos. The Mussalmans and Christians will realize Him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere.
Ramakrishna
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If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?
Timothy Keller
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[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.
Albert Einstein
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Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.
Richard Allen
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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Frederick William Robertson
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Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it but people are yearning for it.
Jeffrey Zaslow
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Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
Heinrich Böll
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