Quotes about Indifference
God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.
— Eugene Peterson
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.
— Joseph Heller
A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
— William Hazlitt
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
— John Piper
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
— George Eliot
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
— Billy Graham
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
— Henry David Thoreau
In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
— Thomas Merton
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Young Christians are sick of pablum. It doesn't work anymore. They are tired of rabbinical hair-splitting, empty liturgical apparatus, Sunday school minutiae, the ghostly voices of the old regime; they reject stuck minds and methods and by their indifference to structures and traditional authorities
— Brennan Manning