Half-heartedness Quotes

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

I don't think the music industry has done any damage to my faith - it's probably strengthened it because it's made me see how necessary and relevant it is. I think if you don't keep your guard up, obviously there's a lot of potential for being half-hearted throughout the whole process because you can compare yourself to other people instead of the ultimate standard.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.