Slothfulness Quotes

God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

Surely there is no place in the World where the Inhabitants live with less Labour than in North Carolina. It approaches nearer to the Description of Lubberland than any other, by the great felicity of the Climate, the easiness of raising Provisions, and the Slothfulness of the People.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.