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Indolence: Quotations from Burning Words

Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.— BISHOP HUNTINGTON

At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!— WM. MOUNTFORD

The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.— E. L. MAGOON

The idle man is the devil's cushion.— BISHOP HALL

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.— H. W. BEECHER

Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.— BLAIR

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim - that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.— RICHARD CECIL

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.— C. H. SPURGEON

Be always employed about some rational thing that the devil find thee not idle.— ST. JEROME

A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, "My laziness! my laziness!"— D. L. MOODY

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; "all sorts of sins are in that one."— C. H. SPURGEON

The worst idleness is that of the heart. Think of the condition and prospects of a voiceless, thankless, prayerless heart.— E. L. MAGOON

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self-indulgence, God "stirs up our nests;" and bids us fly upward.— T. L. CUYLER

The only cure for indolence is work; the only cure for selfishness is sacrifice; the only cure for unbelief is to shake off the ague of doubt, by doing Christ's bidding; the only cure for timidity is to plunge into some dreaded duty before the chill comes on.— RUTHERFORD