Quotes about Cravings
Truth is powerful. The more saturated we are with truth, the more powerful we'll be in resisting our temptations. And the more we'll naturally direct our cravings where they should be directed — to the Author of all truth.
— Lysa TerKeurst
In addition to helping you find the desire to conquer your unhealthy cravings, it also holds the key to something very significant for most of us women—spiritual malnutrition. We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Even if Christians are completely surrounded by sin, they should still fight against it. Some people think they're Christians because they've been baptized. These people give their desires free rein and don't care about conquering their sins. They merely follow their own cravings.
— Martin Luther
When it comes to my body, I can 't live with divided loyalties. I can either be loyal to honoring the Lord or loyal to my cravings, desires, and many excuses for not exercising
— Lysa TerKeurst
For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.
— Os Guinness
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
— Numbers 11:5
Being ruled by anything other than God is something God takes quite seriously. And so should I. I don't want to live as an enemy to the cross of Christ. In other words, I don't want to live resistant to the power Christ's death and resurrection provides for me just because I can't walk away from my unhealthy cravings.
— Lysa TerKeurst
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Daniel Plan is designed to cut cravings, satisfy your appetite, and teach you to listen to your body.
— Rick Warren
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
— Teresa of Avila
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world" (1 John 2:15 — 16).
— Lysa TerKeurst
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
— Ephesians 2:3