Translation of "Lukewarmness" in German

The season of the Nativity must raise us out of our daily lukewarmness.

Many church communities are infested with this type of disease: lukewarmness.

This is a scourge worse than lukewarmness which I also hate.

What I can see is that young people in their parishes feel too much lukewarmness.

Let us learn from her how to pray, how to be freed from doubts, complexes, addictions, sin, lukewarmness, and from a superficial Christianity, a Christianity which begins and ends with the Sunday Mass.

Only the lukewarmness of men towards my word could produce this misunderstanding of my words and acts because as soon as man makes an earnest effort about the life of his soul the understanding becomes clear to him of his own accord what my words should mean, and then an outward appearance will never be enough for a man – which will present itself only as a figurative comparison to every thinking man as it then also really was.

Such sins – if not of action, undoubtedly of omission – include an age-old lukewarmness, even a lack, of a specific and specialised approach by the Church and its ministers, priests and pastoral workers to the mission among Gypsies.

It is the time of the end, and it no longer lasts long; it is the time of the great sorrow, which I have always and constantly announced through seers and prophets and which I now also again predict to you with all urgency and admonish you to eager spiritual striving and warn of lukewarmness or complete worldly minded thinking.

Lastly, dear Brothers, please be wary of the lukewarmness that leads to mediocrity and indolence, that ‘midlife crisis’.

When times of stagnation and lukewarmness come over the assembly; when there is a lack of walking in holiness and powerful testimony, then it is high time, to ask earnestly, that the Holy Spirit starts stirring up and working in His people.

All these saints, in different contexts, put today’s word into practice in their lives, without lukewarmness, without calculation, with the passion to risk everything and to leave it all behind.

This kind of teaching is a direct result of spiritual declension, lukewarmness and weariness with cross-bearing.

Others have been called, not from vice and ungodliness, but from a life of mere ordinary blamelessness, or from a state of lukewarmness, or from thoughtlessness, to heroical greatness; and these have often given up lands, and property, and honours, and station, and repute, for Christ's sake.

My Jesus, I kiss your most holy chest. I ask you to forgive so much cold-heartedness, indifference, lukewarmness and horrible ingratitude which you receive from creatures.

Ask God to give you the honesty to say, "Yes, Lord - I see how easy it is for me to drift away into coldness, lukewarmness and neglect."

The teaching about the re-embodiment is once and for all harmful to men because in a certain lukewarmness of the spirit they will always seek their consolation or their explanation in such, that they can once make up for everything they lack, and such a teaching will never be beneficial because only restless work on oneself is able to bring in success, that some day they can look back at their life satisfied – while the re-embodiment teaching always leaves oneself a way out, which is used by the weak, the careless and the lukewarm.

I learned about real Christianity, about the biblical steps of Salvation, about Satan corrupting this whole world, about the satanic influence in drugs and rock music, about the lukewarmness of most of the churches, about Jesus being alive and real to those who seek Him through the Scriptures... and I saw her humility and faith in God!

To launch into the deep should be understood as an invitation to run away from mediocrity, indifference and lukewarmness for the inspirations of God.

Loving Christ and His Church, despite the mediocrity – she called it the «accursed lukewarmness» – of so many baptized people and «christs» (priests), was certainly for her «Hell and Heaven together».

The Lord lets us know in very clear terms what does not please Him: lukewarmness, indecision, hesitation and procrastination, objections … But when He calls us, all of these things must be overcome unconditionally.

Seeing a certain lukewarmness, in 1932 he published a brochure, «The Plague of Secularism and its Manifestations,» in which he vigorously exhorted the laity to fight against the secularization and dechristianization of society.