Quotes about Idleness

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of another's hardship

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter [that is, her fellow cities] had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49