Quotes about Serious

It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Indeed, the only truely serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truely serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set limits, describes the boundaries of human exsistence.

Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

When "the concept of error in the sense of incorrectness is … used on the same level as the concept of erring in the sense of sin and deception … we are quite far removed from the serious manner with which erring is dealt in Scripture … (as) a swerving from the truth and upsetting the faith (2 Tim. 2:18)

Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.

I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

Lamentations is insurance against premature comfort, against "healing the wounds of my people lightly" During the time of ruin there are always those who attempt to cover the wounds of judgment with band-aid comfort. But comfort cannot function apart from a serious grappling with the pain of judgment.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.