Quotes About Slothful

She seemed to represent a conscious choice between (1) a healthy, strong future of thriving and surviving and (2) a slothful existence of inactivity, illness, decline, and dependence.

Now, there is simply no possibility of a real change in the Negro's situation without the most radical and far-reaching changes in the American political and social structure. And it is clear that white Americans are not simply unwilling to effect these changes; they are, in the main, so slothful have they become, unable even to envision them.

Although slothful and ignorant, the enlisted men are cunning and devious and bear watching at all times,'" Doc said.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Another sign of our effectual calling is diligence in our ordinary calling. Some boast of their high calling, but they lie idly at anchor. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness. Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.

No opinions, no ideas, no real knowledge of anything, no ideals, no inspiration; a fat, slothful, querulous, greedy, impotent carcass; a stump, a decaying belly washed up on the shore... Always tired, always bored, always hurt, always hating.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

by nature and by choice, i am extremely indolent.

"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. –

I'm a lazy sod.

Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.

And we may see that the severest comminations are not only useful in the preaching of the gospel, but exceeding necessary, towards persons that are observed to be slothful in their profession.

Slothful and lazy souls never obtain one view of this glory. The "lion in the road" deters them from attempting it (Prov 26:13).58 Being carnal, they abhor all diligence in the use of spiritual means, such as prayer and meditation, which to them are uneasy, unpleasant, and difficult. But for others, this way shares in the blessings of the promised destination. The means of obtaining a view of the glory of Christ are of the same kind and pleasantness of the view itself.