Quotes about Seriousness

They make Christ a speculative unity of God and man; or they throw Christ away altogether and take His teaching; or for sheer seriousness they make Christ a false god. Spirit is the negation of direct immediacy. If Christ is very God, He must also be unrecognizable, He must assume recognizableness, which is the negation of all directness. Direct recognizableness is precisely the characteristic of the pagan god.

The Attack is a funny book which the reader has the option of taking seriously. For when the laughter subsides we realize that SK has set before us a stark either-or proposition: either follow the gospel according to Christ and the apostles, or follow the gospel according to the clergy. There can be no dialectical synthesis between these contraries.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?