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Seriousness Quotes

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

C. S. Lewis
Wanted, Seeking God, Seriousness
"The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963".

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

Stuart Wilde
Ego, Disease, Seriousness
Stuart Wilde (1996). “Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power”, p.125, Hay House, Inc

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Saul Bellow
Dangerous, Strict, Seriousness
Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.1, Penguin

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Heinrich Böll
Seriousness, Earnestness
Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

Leonard Cohen
Opposites, Seriousness, Renunciation
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers
Inspirational, Serious, Seriousness
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Philip Roth
Playfulness, Seriousness, Closest Friends
FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 08, 2011

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington
Experience, Seriousness, Happens

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Peyton Manning
Concussions, Seriousness

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doors, Seriousness, Handle

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

Fredrika Bremer
Husband, Wedlock, Seriousness

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

Donald Cargill
Goes On, Seriousness

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian, Seriousness, Dose

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Plato
Twins, Twin Sister, Seriousness

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Seriousness, Absolutes
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.141, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Seriousness is a disease.

Rajneesh
Children, Disease, Seriousness

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

George Santayana
Affair, Seriousness, Humans
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

Conrad Hyers
Opposites, Despair, Seriousness

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Bela Lugosi
People, Serious, Seriousness

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Franken
Seriousness, Opposition

Every man is grave alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Graves, Seriousness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.268, Harvard University Press

Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

Rajneesh
Sickness, Playfulness, Seriousness

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

Leonard Cohen
Pleasure, Seriousness
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

Fulton J. Sheen
Sin, Seriousness

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Oscar Wilde
Age, Seriousness, Coming Of Age
Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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