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, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.
Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
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 truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.