Deeds Quote by Thomas Aquinas

Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort.…

— John Hardon

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause…

— Patanjali

“Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual…

— John Bunyan

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

— Mason Cooley

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his…

— Matthew Henry

“What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to take; are you aware of that? To live in indolence…

— Victor Hugo

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

— George Herbert