When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.
There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
. . . it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
. . . the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.
Labor in loneliness is irksome.
I could be irksome when I put my left ventricle into it.
