Inspirational Quotes on Apathy

“I may say with truth that there is only about one in ten who professes Christianity who will turn round and glorify God with a loud voice. Nine out of ten are still born Christians. You never hear of them.”

“I believe in my soul that there are more at this day being lost for want of decision than for any other thing.”

“Has life become so filled with efforts to cover every financial contingency, to realize one's full earthly potential, and finally to retire comfortably, that without realizing it we are finding our hope in this world rather than in God?”

“The average person who claims to believe in God (as does the vast majority in America) is too preoccupied with himself to give God much time or serious thought.”

“The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.”

“The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.”

“What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”

“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.”

“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”

“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.”