Apathy Quote by Eric Metaxas

“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.” quote by Eric Metaxas — Download Open image

“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they…

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

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Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

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For he who is not deaf, half a silence is enough.

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“Just because a person is silent doesn’t mean there’s no message.”

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“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film had, in a thousand and one ways, blunted her sensibilities to the wonderful; reading about and seeing impossible events had prepared her to be un-astonished by the most improbable phenomena. All the same, her terror had…

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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

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