Quotes about Lethargy

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Lethargy is evident in churches when the people have no sense of ownership.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Pain is the fuel of passion — it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess. C. S. Lewis said, "Pain is God's megaphone." It is God's way of arousing us from spiritual lethargy. Your problems are not punishment; they are wake-up calls from a loving God. God is not mad at you; he's mad about you, and he will do whatever it takes to bring you back into fellowship with him.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.