Slothful Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means… — Ole Hallesby
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly
For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing… — Ezra Taft Benson
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Julius Caesar Scaliger
Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are… — L. Lionel Kendrick
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against… — John Steinbeck
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything… — John Hardon
I know how deeply slothful I am. — Joseph Epstein
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on… — Baron d'Holbach
I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert. — Fran Lebowitz
What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the… — Alvin R. Dyer
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people… — Henry Hazlitt
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of… — Theodore Roosevelt
Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have.… — Brigham Young
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… — Saint Basil
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we… — Charles Stanley

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