Quotes about Indulgence

In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her.

Why, the man is rich as wedding-cake.

She was still haunted by the ghost of the cake she had drowned.

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

it is extremely trying when one has once tasted pleasure to abstain from its enticements, so the reward of doing this is proportionately great.

Quite possibly there is no greater conformity to the world among evangelical Christians today than the way in which we, instead of presenting our bodies as holy sacrifices, pamper and indulge them in defiance of our better judgment and our Christian purpose in life.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints. In fact, we often indulge in what I call the "respectable" or "acceptable" sins without any sense of sin. Our

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.