Apathy

The cross of Golgatha

Genesis 4:9 (NASB) 9  Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

Ezekiel 22:30 (NASB) 30  "I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Revelation 3:14-16 (NASB) 14  "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: 15  'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will 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)

 

Where apathy is the master, all men are slaves.  Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.

 

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