In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.
Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I'm one quantum leap closer to freedom.
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e. g. , music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.