All growth that is not toward God is growing to decay.
– George Macdonald
Apathy | Growth
The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord’s own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.
– A. W. Tozer
Apathy
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
– Ronald Reagan
Apathy
May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be “worldly”; nay, we even delight in not remaining “in the world.”
– Watchman Nee
Apathy | Worldliness
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
– Thomas Aquinas
Apathy
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
– John Calvin
Apathy | Animals
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost; Christianity without Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regeneration; politics without God; and Heaven without Hell.
– William Booth
Religion | Christianity | Apathy
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?
– Leonard Ravenhill
Apathy
If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Apathy | Deception
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
– Billy Graham
Anger | Apathy | The Heart
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
– William Gurnall
Preaching | Apathy
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy | Business | Rest
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.
– Charles Finney
Revival | Apathy | Jealousy
Many of us are hunting mice – while lions devour the land.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Apathy
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Church | Apathy
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Apathy | Power
Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Apathy | Responsibility
Is the world crucified to you tonight? Or does it fascinate you?
– Leonard Ravenhill
Apathy
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.
– Charles Finney
Revival | Hell | Apathy
We should not ask, “What is wrong with the world?” for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, “What has happened to the salt and light?”
– John Stott
Apathy
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
– Zig Ziglar
Apathy | Change | Men
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou can eat it all to thyself.
– Charles Spurgeon
Apathy | The Gospel
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
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.
– Duncan Campbell
Apathy | Heresy | Godliness
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
– Peter Marshall
Apathy
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Apathy
There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can’t bring sinners in.
– Mordecai Ham
Christians | Apathy
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
– John Stott
Apathy
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
– Watchman Nee
Apathy | Attitude
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
– Martin Luther
Gossip | Apathy
Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people in danger of being burned?
– Duncan Campbell
Apathy | Evangelism | Work
If you seek to please men you can never be a servant of the Lord.
– Zac Poonen
Apathy
Take heed of drowsiness in hearing; drowsiness shows much irreverence. 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?
– Thomas Watson
Apathy
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.
– Thomas Watson
Apathy | The Heart
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer | Apathy
Too many, through want of prudence, are golden apprentices, silver journeymen, and copper masters.
– George Whitefield
Apathy
The weakness of human nature has always appeared in times of great revivals of religion, by a disposition to run into extremes, especially in these three things: enthusiasm, superstition, and intemperate zeal.
– Jonathan Edwards
Apathy | Revival | Weakness
Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
– J. C. Ryle
Apathy
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.
– Duncan Campbell
Apathy
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
– Thomas a Kempis
Laziness | Apathy | Habits
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
We are so little and vain that the esteem of five or six persons about us is enough to content and amuse us.
– Blaise Pascal
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.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
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.
– Ed Cole
Apathy
Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.
– David Jeremiah
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Apathy | The Future | Relationships
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
– A. W. Tozer
Apathy | Prayer
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
– Zig Ziglar
Apathy | Work
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy | Men
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.
– Stephen Charnock
Atheism | Apathy
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
– G.K. Chesterton
Politics | Apathy | Compromise
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
– George Whitefield
Christianity | Apathy
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
– William Wilberforce
Apathy
At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might make them worse, and further, discourage weak brethren from seeking to lead a good and holy life, or turn them aside from the faith. In such circumstances forbearance is not prompted by selfish considerations but by well advised charity.
– Augustine
Apathy
Folks don’t want to be shaken. They would rather sit still. They want to come to church Sunday morning, listen to you for an hour, get up and walk out the door, go home and eat dinner, and forget about what you said.
– Lee Roberson
Apathy
Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers.
– Assorted Authors
Apathy
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Apathy
The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion — whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside — such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
– J. C. Ryle
Apathy
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Apathy
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
– Assorted Authors
Apathy | Missions | The Holy Spirit
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
– Thomas Adams
Apathy
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.
– Thomas Fuller
Apathy | Discretion | Business
People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
– Vance Havner
Apathy
I see no hope for a revival among God’s people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?
– Lester Roloff
Revival | Apathy
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
– George Herbert
Apathy
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.
– Dave Hunt
Selfishness | Apathy | America
As we live a life that is about as unlike Jesus as you can get, a life of comfort and coddling undreamt of by billions around the world; a lifestyle in the top 10% of the earth today (-in debt up to our eyeballs all the while) – the fact is that we don’t really CARE that we have lost original Christianity, do we? We are too busy, man. Don’t bother us with that kind of talk.
– Andrew Strom
Christianity | Apathy
We are too apt to rest in a bare profession of faith, and to think that this will save us; it is a cheap and easy religion to say, “We believe in the articles of the Christian faith;” but it is a great delusion to imagine that this is enough to bring us to heaven.
– Matthew Henry
Apathy
oday, we have a Christianity made easy as an accommodation to an age that is unwilling to face the implication of Calvary, and the gospel of ‘simply believism’ has produced a harvest of professions which have done untold harm to the cause of Christ.
– Duncan Campbell
ApathyChristianity
If you are contented with a sound creed and a little morality in your lives, you are in an awful state. I would not like to die in your state for a thousand worlds.
– William Tiptaft
Apathy
Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
– Winkie Pratney
RevivalApathy
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?
– Dave Hunt
Ignorance | Apathy
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
– John Owen
Apathy | The Heart
Let the Christian mark this well that once he has perceived the will of God in his spirit’s intuition his whole being needs to be employed actively in executing God’s will. He should not be passive.
– Watchman Nee
Apathy
God has no place for undercover agents.
– Woodrow Kroll
Apathy
If the Lord should always be swift to hear us, how slow should we be in hearing him, and while we have our desires, forget most of our duties.
– Abraham Wright
Apathy
Neglect does more for the soul than make it miss salvation. It despoils it of its capacity for salvation.
– Henry Drummond
Apathy
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
– George Macdonald
Apathy
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
– Isaac Watts
Apathy | Truth | Parents
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.
– Theodore Epp
Scripture | Apathy
If the Lord should always be swift to hear us, how slow should we be in hearing him, and while we have our desires, forget most of our duties.
– Abraham Wright
Apathy
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
– Helen Keller
Apathy
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Truth | Apathy | Joy
O slow of heart to believe and trust in the constant presence and overruling agency of our almighty Savior!
– Adoniram Judson
Apathy | Ignorance
To enjoy sensuous pleasures daily is no evidence of spirituality. On the contrary, those who go on with God and disregard their own feelings are the truly spiritual ones.
– Watchman Nee
Apathy | Feelings
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.
– Theodore Epp
Christians | Apathy
Until we get some of God’s people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated.
– Mordecai Ham
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Apathy
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
– G.K. Chesterton
Apathy | Growth
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
– Adoniram Judson
Apathy | Religion
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Apathy
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.
– C.S. Lewis
Apathy
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.
– Thomas Watson
Apathy
Today, few Americans are aware of the spiritual epidemic that wiped out the land of our Christian forefathers. Even fewer are aware that the same epidemic has reached our own shores, spreading like a virus.
– Ken Ham
Apathy | History | America
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God.
– C.S. Lewis
God | Apathy
Often we become apathetic in our lives until we face a severe storm. Whether loss of a job, health crisis, loss of a loved one, or financial struggle; God often brings storms into our lives to change our perspective, to shift the focus from ourselves and our lives to Him.
– Paul Chappell
Apathy
The best ground, unfilled and neglected, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless.
– Joseph Hall
Apathy | Knowledge