Quotes about Excess
The ancient proverb says, "Satiety produces disgust
— John Calvin
Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
— Genesis 41:35
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
— Jeremy Camp
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
— Martin Luther
‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
— Job 22:20
You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
— Ezekiel 23:41
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine
Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.
— John Piper
You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
— Ezekiel 39:18
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
— Amos 6:6
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
— Isaiah 5:11
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
— Victor Hugo