Quotes about Seriousness

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

I am not a comedian, I am an actor.

Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most

There is hell now, and there is hell later, and Jesus teaches us to take both seriously.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This