Quotes about Complacency

Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

These consecrated ones, by their lifestyles and anointings, shook people out of their complacency and confronted the religious status quo with a burning zeal for the name and fame of God.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

Don't fall into a complacency trap. It doesn't take any more effort to stay filled with faith than it takes to develop a negative attitude. Dare to step out of your comfort zone today. God has so much more in store. Keep pursuing and keep believing.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.

Then the cycle would repeat: faith for a generation, then complacency, soon followed by adultery as the people chased after false gods.