| APATHY see also Complacency; Indifference | 冷漠 |
| Still water and still religion freeze the quickest. 一潭死水和死寂的宗教冰凍得最快。 |
| When God has spoken, apathy
is evidence of practical atheism. Joyce Baldwin 在上帝傳揚祂的信息時，對上帝信息的冷漠可說是道地無神論的表現。 |
| The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 惡勢力得勝的條件很簡單，只要好人袖手旁觀就好了。 |
| Some Christians are not only
like salt that has lost its savour, but like pepper that has lost its pep. Albert George Butzer 有些基督徒不單像失去鹹味的鹽，也像失去能夠提神味道的胡椒粉。 |
| If we once become listless to duty, we shall quickly
become lifeless in it. Stephen Charnock 如果我們對當盡的本分無精打采，很快的，我們就會變成行屍走肉。 |
| If the doctrine of sinless
perfection is a heresy, the doctrine of contentment with sinful imperfection is a greater
heresy. A. J. Gordon 如果無罪完全的教義是異端，那滿足於有罪不完全的教義是更大的異端。 |
| Never before have we had so many degrees in the
church and yet so little temperature. Vance Havner 教會前所未有的擁有許多有學位的基督徒，可是教會的溫度仍然不高。（degrees是學位，在這裡取同義字『溫度度數』） |