I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.
Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it's the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage or any other thing - are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues? Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don't think so.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don't bring in any other sin issue into the picture - the ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed. Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic. "
Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate
