They may call their lukewarmness charity, meekness, moderation, and a largeness of soul; it is nauseous to ❋ Unknown (1721)
Judging from the night we were present, that support has been extended with a degree of lukewarmness which is exactly proportionate to the effect produced by the appeals of actors when misfortune overtakes them. ❋ Various (N/A)
But I would lay upon all our hearts the plain, practical lesson that, if we keep in that tepid region of lukewarmness which is the utmost approach to tropical heat that moral and religious questions are capable of raising in many of us, good-bye to all chance of being 'great in the sight of the Lord.' ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
It may be some one of our original stock of sins not yet mortified; or some new sin into which we have recently fallen; or some relaxation of our spiritual life, out of which has arisen, perhaps, one dangerous temptation, such as lukewarmness, selfishness, or vainglory. ❋ 1808-1892 (1847)
It is also the result of our own complacency and lukewarmness. ❋ Rev. Emily C. Heath (2011)
Know, my son, and make all others know, that it is a probable and proximate sign of eternal damnation to have an aversion, a lukewarmness, or a negligence in saying the Angelical Salutation, which has repaired the whole world. ❋ Esther (2009)
Keep in mind they past life and present lukewarmness, to bewail them, and what is still wanting to thee for thy going into heaven, that thou mayest live in fear, which is a source of great blessings. ❋ Esther (2009)
Can it be denied that Thebes refused to take part with you in the campaign against your direst enemy, the democracy in Piraeus; and balanced that lukewarmness by on onslaught on the Phocians, whose sole crime was cordiality to yourselves? ❋ Unknown (2007)
For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. ❋ JDsg (2005)
--, The sin and danger of lukewarmness: A sermon, preached at the opening of the nave of the parish church of Leamington Priors, on Thursday, the ninth of May, 1844, new ed. ❋ Unknown (2006)
…Mrs Warner was speaking this P.M. of lukewarmness toward God…I told her if I felt toward God as I did toward my husband I should never be in the least troubled—I did not tell her how almost perfectly cold I am toward God— ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
No shilly-shallying, no lukewarmness, no indifference to a noble cause. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
