Quotes about Gluttony
The denied sins that are really destroying the world are much more the sins that we often admire and fully accept in our public figures: pride, ambition, greed, gluttony, false witness, legitimated killing, vanity, et cetera. That is hard to deny.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.
— Frederick Buechner
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
— Psalm 78:30
Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.
— John Piper
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
— Isaiah 56:9
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
— Deuteronomy 21:20
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
— Robert Brault
Eating in excess is a sin.
— Lysa TerKeurst
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.
— CS Lewis
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
— Proverbs 25:27
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
— Job 15:27
For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
— Isaiah 28:8