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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth,…

— Mishka

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called “acedia”: a “weariness or distress of heart . . .…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a…

— Herman Melville

“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we would see…

— Brigid Schulte

“Because God knows how miserable sorrow is, He comes down to help us. A God who is only transcendent cannot be empathetic. A transcendent…

— Dick Brogden

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and…

— James E. Faust

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness,…

— J. C. Ryle

“Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have been in…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“God still speaks to us. He speaks not from a life of ease, far removed from our suffering. He speaks from the cross, the…

— Gerrit Dawson

“For the only path leading out of the torments of hell to the everlasting joy of the Kingdom is that of the divine commandments:…

— Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off…

— John Milton