Inspirational Quotes on Apathy

“Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.”

“Concealed talent brings no reputation.”

“How easy it is to live more or less in the enjoyment of God's free grace, and yet not realize that we are called to fulfill a divinely appointed purpose.”

“There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.”

“Can we be casual in the work of God -- casual when the house is on fire, and people in danger of being burned?”

“How much of these destructive elements, esteemed by men, does the devil bring into the church, until all the high, unworldly and holy aims, and heavenly objects of the church are retired and forgotten?”

“Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.”

“Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.”

“A greater sorrow than a man not seeing a need is the man who sees it and does nothing about it. But a still greater sorrow is the man who sees the need and can do something about it but won't.”

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

“He that hath no cross deserves no crown.”

“It is the misfortune of kings that they scarcely ever do the good they have a mind to do; and through surprise, and the insinuations of flatterers, they often do the mischief they never intended.”

“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”

“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”

“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.”

“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”

“No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.”