Creation, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
For the good Creator made all things good and the Maker of the universe is one, Who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all that is in them. Of which whatever is granted to man for food and drink, is holy and clean after its kind. But if it is taken with immoderate greed, it is the excess that disgraces the eaters and drinkers, not the nature of the food or drink that defiles them. For all things, as the Apostle says, are clean to the clean. But to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean, but their mind and conscience is defiled.
–Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461)
John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
We are gluttonous, my children, when we take food in excess, more than is required for the support of our poor body; when we drink beyond what is necessary, so as even to lose our senses and our reason. . . . Oh, how shameful is this vice! How it degrades us! See, it puts us below the brutes: the animals never drink more than to satisfy their thirst: they content themselves with eating enough; and we, when we have satisfied our appetite, when our body can bear no more, we still have recourse to all sorts of little delicacies; we take wine and liquors to repletion! Is it not pitiful?
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
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Gluttony is the hypocrisy of the stomach which complains of being empty when it is well fed, and bellows that is hungry when it is almost full to the bursting.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)
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You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.
— Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
