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.

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.

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.

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.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

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.

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

Fasting is about ingesting the Word of God, the beauty of God, the presence of God, the blessings of God. Fasting is about spiritual indulgence!

A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.