Quotes about Indulgence

On the surface it appears that all we're talking about is food and the amount we consume. In reality, there is a more serious issue at the root of gluttony. Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or

Sin has a horrible appetite. It calls for more and more sin to be set in motion.

We crave what we eat.

God seems far away and French fries are right around the corner at the drive-thru.

Two words that characterize misplaced worship or lust are secret excess.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants.

The flesh would fain be indulged upon the account of grace: and every word that is spoken of mercy, it stands ready to catch at, and to pervert to its own corrupt aims and purposes. To apply mercy, then, to a sin not vigorously mortified, is to fulfil the end of the flesh pon the gospel.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Indigence and indulgence are the two extremes of wretchedness. They are both equally unnatural and the result of mental disorder. A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer, of the man with his surroundings.