Awake O, Sleeper!

“Do not suppose that it needs some great scarlet sin to bring you to the pit of destruction. You have only to sit still and do nothing, and you will find yourself there at last. Yes! Satan does not ask you to walk in the steps of Cain, and Pharaoh, and Ahab, and Belshazzar, and Judas Iscariot. There is another road to hell quite as sure, – the road of spiritual indolence, spiritual laziness, and spiritual sloth. Satan has no objection to your being a respectable member of the Christian church. He will let you pay your tithes, and rates, and pews, and tents; he will allow you to sit comfortably in church every Sunday you live. He knows full well, that as long as you do not 'strive,' you must come at last to the worm that never dies, and the fire that is not quenched. Take heed that you do not come to this end. I repeat it, you have only to do nothing, and you will be lost.”

– J.C Ryle, Practical Religion