Quotes about Consumption

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?

and He took it and ate it in front of them.

Have we no right to food and to drink?

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

Instead of sacrificing for the cause of Christ, people appeared to be consuming, not contributing.

Where your money goes, there your heart follows.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.