Quotes about Self-indulgence
Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
— Oswald Chambers
Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
— Ecclesiastes 2:10
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
— Zechariah 7:6
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
— Matthew 23:25
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
— Ephesians 4:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
— Philippians 3:19
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
— James 5:5
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
— Victor Hugo
The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.
— Philip Yancey
As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.
— Donald Miller
The man who will not give up his passions, who clings to anger, unkindness, sensuality, pride, vanity self-indulgence, for the momentary pleasure which their gratification affords him is a spiritual miser; he cannot have any spiritual comforts.
— James Allen
America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.
— John Hagee