Genesis 4:9 (NIV) 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Hosea 7:8 (NIV) 8 "Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat cake not turned over.
Ezekiel 22:30 (NIV) 30 "I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.
Revelation 3:14-16 (NIV) 14 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie / But rather mourn the apathetic throng / The cowed and the meek / Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak. Ralph Chaplin (1887-1961) Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.
