Quotes about Idleness
The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not
— Philip Schaff
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.
— Martin Luther
The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
— John Eldredge
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
— Hannah More
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
— Samuel Johnson
Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
— 2 Thessalonians 3:11
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler
— Samuel Johnson
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
— St. John Chrysostom
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
— Proverbs 10:4
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
— Hannah More
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
— Martin Luther