When used in the moral sense, the person seized by acedia is the affect-less individual, the one incapable of investment or commitment, a person who cannot get deeply involved in any cause or relationship. . . . Sloth as moral apathy is what hinders a person from pursuing that which is good. It is a refusal to seek the good because it is difficult and demanding. — Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
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No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war. — President Theodore Roosevelt