Quotes about Passivity
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
- Peter Kreeft
The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God's love. But to say that being lifted up into the kingdom of love is a divine gift does not mean that we wait passively until the gift is offered to us.
- Henri Nouwen
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
- Aldous Huxley
passing the time without any labor of intelligence
- George Eliot
Non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whether we choose it or not, almost all expressions of church in the West are implicitly vulnerable to nondiscipleship, professionalized ministry, spiritual passivity, and consumerism. The problem is rooted in the profoundly nonmissional assumptions of the system itself.
- Alan Hirsch
Second, we should not allow the doctrine of God's sovereignty to cause us to respond passively to the actions of other people that affect us. We should take all reasonable steps within the will of God to protect and advance our situation.
- Jerry Bridges
Joy does not come to you if you are spiritually passive; rather, joy is cultivated, but joy is cultivated by things you do.
- Donald Whitney
He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.
- Charles Swindoll
Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza
- Frank Herbert
The pew is perhaps the greatest inhibitor of face-to-face fellowship. It is a symbol of lethargy and passivity in the contemporary church and has made corporate worship a spectator sport.
- Frank Viola