Cold Quote by Thomas a Kempis

“The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude,…

— Kevin DeYoung

Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we…

— Frederick William Faber

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

So many people live daily with unhappy circumstances, and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. They somehow believe that conforming…

— Suman Rai

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth…

— John Owen

“The idea behind verses about the sealing of hearts appears to be the psychological law that if a person once does a good or…

— Fazlur Rahman

“With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which they flee because…

— Juan de la Cruz

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the…

— William George Jordan

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too…

— Iris Murdoch

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are…

— Max Beerbohm

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

— Marshall McLuhan