Quotes about Consumption
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
— Genesis 9:4
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. I cannot forget this. I look at men's lives. I believe that few pray.
— JC Ryle
The great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.
— John Eldredge
Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.
— Mark Buchanan
Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway!
— Kathleen Norris
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
— Leviticus 7:23
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
— Jeremy Camp
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
— Deuteronomy 12:22
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
— Martin Luther
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
— Exodus 24:17
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
— CS Lewis