#earnest

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#gullibility #honesty #think

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

— Phillips Brooks

#made #see #set #then #you

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concerned #consists #earnestly #faith

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality. ↗

— Marc Webb

#ferment #into #sentimentality

Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public temptation. ... Chausuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chausuble: And often, I´ve been told, not even to her. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#equality

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. ↗

— Gray Davis

#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#does #earnest #every #flattery #hates

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#enthusiasm #reason #tempered

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. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#earnest #earnestly #ever #failure #freely