| INDOLENCE | 怠惰 |
| Inaction speaks louder than words. 不做事傳遞的信息比話語還大聲。 |
| It is often said that it is
difficult to get the sinner in - but it is often just as difficult to get the saints out. 常言道要罪人進來的確不容易 - 可是要聖人能出去做些事情也同樣不容易。 |
| An idle brain is the devil's workshop. 閒置的腦子正是魔鬼的工作坊。 |
| God's biggest problem with
labourers in his vineyard is absenteeism. 上帝最頭痛的問題莫過於葡萄園的工人常有人缺席。 |
| No farmer ever ploughed a field by turning it over
in his mind. 沒有任何農夫犁田是只在腦子裡面把土翻過來而已。 |
| Our idle days are Satan's
busy days. 我們無所事事的日子正是撒旦忙碌的日子。 |
| The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
that good men do nothing. 魔鬼得勝的唯一條件就是好人不做事。 |
| If you are idle, you
are on the road to ruin, and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is
rather a precipice than a road. Henry Ward Beecher 如果你懶惰，你就走上了失敗道路，而且這條路上幾乎沒有停靠站。它更像是一個懸崖，而不是一條路。 |
| Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Benedict 閒懶是靈魂的仇敵。 |
| Our laziness after God is
our crying sin...No man gets God who does not follow hard after him. E. M. Bounds 我們對神的懶惰，乃是我們可悲的罪行...沒有殷勤追求祂的人，得不到神。 |
| A lazy spirit is always a losing spirit. Thomas Brooks 懶散的心靈通常是失喪的心靈。 |
| An idle life and a holy
heart is a contradiction. Thomas Brooks 懶散的生活與聖潔的心靈是相互矛盾的。 |
| Lose an hour in the morning and you will be looking
for it the rest of the day. Philip Chesterfield 你早上掉了一個小時，那你就得花上整天的時間尋找這失落的一小時。 |
| It is better to wear out
than to rust out. Richard Cumberland 寧可穿壞衣服，也不願任憑朽壞。 |
| An idle man does none good, and himself most harm. William Gurnall 閒散的人對誰都沒有好處，對自己的傷害最大。 |
| Salvation is a helmet, not a
nightcap. Vance Havner 救恩是安全頭盔，而不是一頂睡覺時帶在頭上的小睡帽。 |
| Idleness tempts God instead of trusting him. Matthew Henry 閒懶是對上帝的試探而不是對祂的信賴。 |
| Ease is never good for the
people of God. Alexander Peden 安逸對上帝百姓而言從來都不是一件好事情。 |
| Some temptations come to the industrious, but all
temptations attack the idle. C. H. Spurgeon 偶有試探臨到勤勞刻苦者，但全部試探攻擊遊手好閒的人。 |
| Idleness is the burial of a
living man. Jeremy Taylor 遊手好閒是埋葬活人。 |
| An Idle man is the devil's tennis ball. John Trapp 遊手好閒的人是魔鬼的網球。 |
| Jesus has never slept for an
hour while one of his disciples watched and prayed in agony. H. Clay Trumbull 當祂的門徒痛苦的守望禱告時，耶穌從未安睡片刻。 |
| God has given no man a dispensation to be idle. Ralph Venning 上帝從未特准人遊手好閒。 |
| Idleness tempts devil to
tempt. Thomas Watson 遊手好閒試探魔鬼來試探人。 |