Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.

Published on May 17, 2016 , under Quotes

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Source: Frederic Dan Huntington, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), Page: 344.

Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat. - Frederic Dan Huntington