Inspirational Quotes on Apathy

“Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.”

“You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.”

“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”

“It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.”

“All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.”

“If your in anything and never wanted to quit it--your not in much.”

“It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation. ”

“Many people hear the Word of God, but to some of them it is only words; they do not accept it as the Word of God. What a paradox it is that all creation obeys His Word except we who are made in the image of God and have the ability to choose.”

“So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.”

“A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.”

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

“Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.”

“Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.”

“Remember. O my soul, the fig tree was charged, not with bearing noxious fruit, but no fruit.”

“Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.”

“One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.”

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”

“How far are they from offering violence to themselves in hearing, who come to the word in a dull, drowsy manner, as if they came to church to take a receipt to make them sleep. The word is to feed; it is strange to sleep at meat. The word judgeth men: it is strange for a prisoner to fall asleep at the bar.”

“All the danger is when the world gets into the heart. The water is useful for the sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart.”

“Take heed of drowsiness in hearing; drowsiness shows much irreverance. How lively are many when they are about the world, but in the worship of God how drowsy. ...In the preaching of the Word, is not the bread of life broken to you; and will a man fall asleep at his food? Which is worse, to stay from a sermon, or sleep at sermon?”