Quotes about Moderation
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
— Henry David Thoreau
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
— St. John Chrysostom
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
— Epicurus
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
— Ambrose of Milan
Sometimes when people feel strongly about something, that is all they preach about. That is wrong. There needs to be a balance. We need to use common sense even in our spiritual life. In
— Joyce Meyer
Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect
— Steven Pressfield
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— St. Jerome
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
— Bishop TD Jakes
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
— Martin Luther