Slothfulness Quotes

• In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

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  Horace Mann

  Country   Men   Oysters  

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.49

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• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

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  Martin Luther

  Christian   Prayer   Giving  

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

  4993

• The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

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  John of Kronstadt

  Passion   Heart   Mean  

  1843

• The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

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  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer   Judging   People  

  3667

• As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

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  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity   Men   Fire  

  3469

• There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible   Lazy People   Tears  

  359

• Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

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  Sterling W Sill

  Procrastination   Apathy   Faithfulness  

  4850

• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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  Jules Renard

  Running   Motivation   Business  

  4603

• The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

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  Sterling W Sill

  Opportunity   Done   Littles  

  4712

• So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

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  Thomas a Kempis

  Evil   Laziness   Overcoming  

  1953

• If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

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  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer   Church   Firsts  

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