Quotes about Moderation
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
- Proverbs 25:16
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
- Proverbs 25:27
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- Proverbs 30:8
Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.
- Ecclesiastes 5:2
Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
- Ecclesiastes 7:16
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 7:17
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
- Romans 14:21
“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
- 1 Corinthians 6:12
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:7
For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
- 1 Corinthians 11:21
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
- Ephesians 5:18
For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7