“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.” ShouldFirstsHeartPersonsDoeEarthHeavenFeltImaginationChristianityMankindSeriousRelationDoctrineIncarnationSerious Person Author:James Anthony Froude
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesPlayActionEarthDeathSeriousHugeStonesStructureProfoundSignificantGravesConcreteAnother Way Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.” ThinkingKnowsMenShouldMindKindMayShowsWould BeEarthUniverseImpossibleAtheismSeriousApproachResearchEvidenceErrorsPositive AtheismCommitHeightArrogancePhenomenonShow MeUnlikelyOpen MindOccultScientific ResearchKeep An Open MindParapsychology Author:Gordon Stein
“I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.” MomentsEarthSpiritualSongSeriousTruthfulDown To Earth Author:Bob Dylan
“They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.” KnowsMenBelieveBookEndsShowsEarthNextHeavenTermLordSeriousHolyThis LifeFixedCarelessNext LifeHoly Books Author:Elijah Muhammad
“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.” ThinkingTryingEarthQualityMusicFireSeriousWindMusicianDiedClintonTouchingSeventiesParliamentRejuvenation Author:Maurice White
“My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.” KnowsTryingEarthSeriousBasketballJokesTeammateDown To Earth Author:Chamique Holdsclaw
“Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.” ShouldEarthResponsibilitySeriousDeterminedObligationKingdomsRighteousnessSpheresKingdom Of God Author:Gordon B. Hinckley