Indulgence Quotes

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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. — Jimmy Carter
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He… — Oswald Chambers
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy… — Gillian Flynn
An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our… — Crowder
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can… — Benjamin Franklin
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility… — Ammon Hennacy
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali
God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask… — Robert Lee Wolverton
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be… — David Brin
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle… — John Dewey
Criminals thrive on the indulgence of societyâ€™s understanding. — Liam Neeson
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. — Aldous Huxley
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record. — Larry Mullen, Jr.
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for… — Walt Whitman

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