Quotes about Addiction

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'

The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

A disciple is someone who is learning by going through the process of change. All the things that we moan about and talk on and on about, such as pornography, divorce and drugs, are things that can be dealt with effectively only by bringing change into the mind and the spirit, into the will, into the body and into the fellowship of the person. Then people come out saying, "Who needs that stuff? I've got something much better than that.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Do you resort to liquor, narcotics, or cigarettes to quiet your nerves? If so, why do you not try will-power instead?

Generational irresponsibility leads to lifetimes of oppression, addiction, and waste.