Pastoral Resources

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.