Meanings of earnest labor in English

The capacity of steady, earnest labor is, I apprehend, one of our great preparations for another state of being.

Speculations are useless, and our time should be too full of earnest labor to allow us to indulge in them.

Holy souls are like soil which has been plowed and tilled with much earnest labor; the thorns and thistles cast aside and all weeds uprooted.

It was no negative exploration, it was hard, earnest labor of years, self-abnegation, enduring patience, and exalted fortitude, such as ordinary men fail to exhibit.

This market-town owed much to the earnest labors of Rev.

Brother Clayton's earnest labors were beginning to show some results, but the work was still quite new.