Cassian, Inst., bk. 10 (CSEL 17, p. 172)
Senkbeil, “Engaging Our Culture Faithfully,” CJ 40:4 (Fall 2014): 292–314.
Reardon, Christ in the Psalms, Psalm 90(91).
Bishop Fulton Sheen (?, loose): “Sloth disguises itself as broadness and open-mindedness but does not have enough intellectual energy to discover the truth.”
Sermon snippet: Years ago the Hayes household invented a mythical creature we call the “SharkBear.” With the head of a great white shark and the body of a grizzly bear, the SharkBear is the most power creature on land and sea. He would be utterly terrifying, except that the SharkBear is friend and defender to all children everywhere. The SharkBear is the child’s hero. Imagine, then, my surprise to discover at the zoo that there is such a creature as a Sloth Bear. I know nothing about sloth bears and their ways, but I imagine that if the SharkBear is a child’s heros, the SlothBear is an adult’s greatest enemy. Imagine a powerful bear sneaking up on you in mid-afteroon to overwhelm you not with force, but with apathy, sloth, just not caring anymore. And while everything I said about bears might be silly, the Scripture are dead serious in their warning us against sloth, be it dressed as a bear or not.