The hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute,” Prov.
The slothfuland sluggard’s desire slays him, because his hands refuse to labour, Prov.
But count the reach of my desire-- Let this be something in thy sight; I have not, in the slothful dark, Forgot the vision and the height.
His envious rage and slothful greed were increased by certain successive accidents which compelled him to resume work.
Shall we be slothful in well-doing, and lay aside our charity?
He warns us therefore beforehand, with all his heart to this end, that we should not be slothful and negligent in well-doing.
Valentinian had taken the West for his portion, and dwelt in his camp on the Rhine and Upper Danube, while Valens, slothful and timid, shut himself up with a court of slaves and flatterers in the imperial palace at Constantinople.
The slothful and luxurious emperor let things slide, and had not even a fleet ready to send against them in the Aegean.
God be merciful to you, and grant 'that' you be not slothful to go in to possess the land.
The fathers before us were "not slothful in business," but "fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
Such souls usually abound in present peace; they look not back upon the years they have spent with that shame as the idle and slothful Christian does.
Idleness clothes a man with rags, and the vineyard of the slothful is grown over with nettles.
By which it is manifest that he had not cast off his profession, but was slothful and negligent while he was in it.
The slothful servant went this way to work, when he was called to account for not improving his Lord's money.
He that will say to him in judgment, "Thou wicked and slothful servant," will not encourage the slothfulness which he condemneth.
Trebellius, being of a slothful disposition and unused to war, retained the province by gentleness.
He that is slothful is one that is willing to make delays: so is he that is slothful for heaven.
They that are slothful they are chid for the same: so also will Christ deal with those that are not active for him.
He that is slothful doth his work by the halves; and so it is with him that is slothful for heaven.
Be not slothfulto go, and to enter to possess the land' (Judg 18:9).
So it is fulfilled unto them as it is written, 'The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns' (Prov.
But to speak plainly, all these are the words of a slothful spirit.
Thou wicked or slothful servant, out of thine own mouth will I judge thee; thou saidst I was thus, and thus, wherefore then gavest not thou my money to the bank?
The slothful man himself, may plainly see, That honey's gotten by the working bee.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27.
The desire of the slothful killeth him; because his hands refused to labour, he coveteth greedily all the day long.
And we find it yet once more in the parable of the pounds in Luke's Gospel, which, though entirely different in conception and purpose from that of the talents, is identical in the portion connected with the slothful servant.
Surely from that thought of the active, ascended Christ may come to many of His slothfulfollowers the pleading question, as from His own lips, 'Dost thou not care that thou hast left me to serve alone?
Again He employs it in this Gospel in the parable of the talents, as explaining the principle on which the retribution to the slothful servant was meted out.
But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed.
Of the industrious, busy hand, Solomon says, 'The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Paul pictures to us the successful man when he uses these words, 'Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
To become deserving of it, must be my great, never-wavering endeavour; I will put my talent to usury, and be no slothful steward of what has been entrusted to me.
I will put my talent to usury, and be no slothful steward of what has been entrusted to me.
LXIII "To know I wear away life's glorious spring In such effeminate and slothful leisure Is to my troubled heart a constant sting, And takes away the taste of every pleasure.
The whole watch must have drunk or sunk in slothful idleness," returned the deep voice again.
Thus to the slothful succeeded others more slothful still, and the warmth of science for a long time decreased throughout the island.
The unredeemed ugliness is that of a slothful People.
In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.
Labour not a devil, even when encased in Mammonism: The unredeemed ugliness, a slothful People.
Guthhere there gave me a goodly jewel, As reward for my song: not slothful that king!
Benson A Roman Mirror Rennell Rodd The Doom of theSlothful John Addington Symonds Hector and Andromache Schiller Tr.
The Gen'ral slothful lies, And you, though slothful too, maintain with him a fight of spleen.
