Top 129 Earnestness Quotes & Sayings

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like irony is fine for its own sake but shouldn't be the sole reason to write a book. It has been an ironic world view: that's the best way I can describe it. I'm a fan of earnestness. I feel like there's a new wave of earnestness and I'd be happy if I'm some small part of that.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

[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.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.