Quotes about Inactivity

To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day of the cynics, the critics, and the pickle-suckers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes a catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor.

passing the time without any labor of intelligence

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.