lukewarmness

How To Use lukewarmness In A Sentence

• 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. Archive 2009-04-26
• The former leaves to the latter to discover for itself the three carnal sins, avarice, gluttony and libidinousness; having already declared the nature of the spiritual sins, pride, envy, anger, and indifference, or lukewarmness in piety, which the Italians call accidia, from the Greek word. Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete
• John, in penning the word of God in Holy Writ, referred to neutrality as lukewarmness. The Spirit of '67
• They may call their lukewarmness charity, meekness, moderation, and a largeness of soul; it is nauseous to Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• God's word repeated as prayer, spoken to one another as encouragement, reflected on when we are perplexed, can still cut through pain, confusion, and lukewarmness.
• Such a state is what the Scriptures call lukewarmness, which to God is revolting.
• 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. Sermons. Volume Third.
• 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. Archive 2009-06-14
• It is also the result of our own complacency and lukewarmness. Rev. Emily C. Heath: Mainline Christianity's PR Problem
• Madeline was a lush and a wine snob, a vegetarian, and a dreadful cook (once she had poached a thick hunk of cod to just that degree of lukewarmness that had reanimated the little white worms inside).