Failing Quote by Saint John Chrysostom Download Open image “It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.” — Saint John Chrysostom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Folly Food Long Selfishness Sin
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. — Joely Fisher Copy Share Image
Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. — Beth McCollister Copy Share Image
“If we added up all of the special ‘avoidance’ diets, no one could eat anything. Many people are ruining their health by avoiding too… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
“There followed a fascinating discussion on moral eating habits and the obligation, duty, or notion of trying to avoid eating other people or removing… — Laura K Anderson Copy Share Image
What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day. — Victoria Osteen Copy Share Image
When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living as we… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
“We come from a mindset that suggests diets are temporary tortures we must endure,” says Debb. And when we’re done, “then we have permission… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I can go days without eating if I don't think about food. Your mind, to protect itself, learns not to pay attention to that… — Oksana Masters Copy Share Image
“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image