“Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” IfsWorldEndsCountryMomentsWould BeJoyGamesHeavenNaturalThis WorldSeriousUpside DownUnimportantFrivolousSerious BusinessTruancy Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“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
“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
“Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.” SoulSpiritHeavenMorningMeditationSeriousSecureEvery MorningSeasoning Book:The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D. Source: The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.
“I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.” ThinkingYearsLongHelpingMightHeavenQualityGreaterAliveTeachingSeriousHigherIntellectualResearchResourcesExcitingFolksActiveAcademicPrestigeIntellectual Life Author:Nicholas Lemann
“A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartFeelingsLife IsHeavenWaitingSinVirtueSeriousKeysGratitudeLateDeserveNobleGrantedGenerousToo LateHonorableGraciousPossessingExpressing GratitudeWrappingPrayerful Author:Thomas S. Monson