Quotes about Neglect

It will not be in the power of the President and Senate to make any treaties by which they and their families and estates will not be equally bound and affected with the rest of the community; and, having no private interests distinct from that of the nation, they will be under no temptations to neglect the latter.

What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had but another life to live, and that God would but try them once again; one crying out of this neglect of duty, and another of his loitering and trifling, when he should have been labouring for his life; what manner of person would you have been after such a sight as this ? (284)

Beware lest, while you proclaim to the world the necessity of a Savior, your own hearts should neglect him, and you should miss an interest in him and his saving benefits. Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish, while you call upon others to take heed of perishing; and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare food for them. Though there

remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."