alarmed by holiness, comfortable in wickedness

... For many people in the church resemble that servant. They are afraid to attempt a better way of life but not of resting in idleness. When they advert to the fact that they are sinners, the prospect of grasping the ways of holiness alarms them, but they feel no fear in remaining in their wickedness.

- St Gregory the Great, 40 Gospel Homilies 9.3