Top 244 Earnestly Quotes & Sayings

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

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 God.

I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.

I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.

I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.

The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Answers to our sincere questions come when we earnestly seek and when we live the commandments.

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

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.

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

A man must earnestly want.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

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 moment realizes itself.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then saying something obviously joking.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.