Scintillating Sentences
By Charles G. Bellah
God calls busy men; Satan, idle ones. Too many waste steam standing still. Our idle days are the devil’s busy ones. None of Christ’s vessels are for ornament. The Bible promises no loaves to the loafer. Moles became blind by not using their eyes. The hand will become useless through disuse. Ships will never come in that are not sent out. Stand still and watch the world go by, and it will. Some people are worth no more than an old almanac. It is sad to see a busy devil and an idle Christian. Some people think they are getting busy when they get buzzy. Instead of being missionaries, some people are omissionaries. Bears hibernate in the winter; some churches do in the summer. The man who waits for things to turn up finds his toes do it first. Idleness is a rust that will attach itself to the most brilliant metals. Doing nothing is a deadly sin. Even a child can let the fire go out. Nothing is accomplished by sitting by the roadside, waiting for a ride. One might as well try to fatten a greyhound as to attempt to improve an idle man. Idle men, like spoons, will not stir their own porridge, unless some one lends a hand. 