Anorexia Quote by Peter Kreeft Download Open image “Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.” — Peter Kreeft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anorexia Bored Boredom Boredom Spiritual Crime Jesus shock Junk Junk food Religion Spiritual Spiritual Anorexia Spiritual Junk Violence Violence Spiritual
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting,… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing. — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences. — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
“The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that you are… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.” — Emma Woolf Copy Share Image
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings… — Michael Elmore-Meegan Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest,… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
“Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the fact that… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don't realize you have it. And you… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what?… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.” — Kate M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image