Quotes about Feasting

By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.

You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

"When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.'"

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.