Quotes about Appetite

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil's delicacies.

Those evil resentments you harbour in your breast against your neighbour, the failure to forgive those who have wronged you ... the jealousies, the envies, the prejudices, and the malices will take away your appetite for the things of the Spirit.

I'm obsessed with food!

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us.

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.