Inspirational Quotes on Apathy

“The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.”

“We are so little and vain that the esteem of five or six persons about us is enough to content and amuse us.”

“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”

“Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.”

“Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”

“It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

“To be discontinuous from God as I am discontinuous from you would be annihilation.”

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God.”

“There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.”

“When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.”

“When there are dissensions, and jealousies, and evil speakings among professors of religion, then there is great need of a revival. These things show that Christians have got far from God, and it is time to think earnestly of a revival.”

“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.”

“I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou can eat it all to thyself.”

“Do you fancy that the eternal God is to be put off with these vain resolutions and to be mocked with these idle dreams of what you will do, when you do nothing whatever? Oh, may God save you from such a delusion!”

“I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.”

“I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.”

“A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.”

“If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.”

“It is a sad day for any congregation when those who compose it can be counted on to be there at the social function, there at the place of business, but cannot be counted on when the interests of the Kingdom are at stake and when the Son of God goes forth to war.”

“What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.”