Quotes about Indulgence

The Divine love is commonly regarded as a species of amiable weakness, a sort of good-natured indulgence; it is reduced to a mere sickly sentiment, patterned after human emotion.

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.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine.

1 Kings 1:6: his father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" That was the foundation of all the mischief. David was an overindulgent father, a father who let his children have their own way, and he reaped according as he had sown.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing.

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Sin is not rational. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't look into the future. It doesn't consider consequences, especially if they are not immediate. All it knows is "I WANT—I WANT MORE.