Quotes about Luxury

Moses had a choice of following God or reveling in the pleasures of Egypt. As heir to the throne of Egypt, he enjoyed luxury; he didn't desire to suffer or sacrifice any more than we do, but he chose to follow God. "He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.

You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.

For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.