One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this. — James Mattis Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity,… — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in,… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being,… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent. — Paul Millsap Copy Share Image
“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
