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Quotes about Consumption

Should I not partake of anything the world consumes? If so, how can I live and function in this world?
- John Bevere
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
- Teresa of Avila
Prayer will consume sin — or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. I cannot forget this. I look at men's lives. I believe that few pray.
- JC Ryle
Satan knows what consumes us controls us. Therefore the more consumed we are with rejection, the more he can control our emotions, our thinking, and our actions.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Remember: what consumes us, controls us. As
- Lysa TerKeurst
On the surface it appears that all we're talking about is food and the amount we consume. In reality, there is a more serious issue at the root of gluttony. Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or
- Lysa TerKeurst
We crave what we eat.
- Lysa TerKeurst
We consume what we think about. And what we think about can consume us if we're not careful.
- Lysa TerKeurst
On the surface, it appears that all we're talking about is food and the amount we consume. In reality, there is a more serious issue at the root. Overstuffing ourselves with food or drink or getting wrapped up in the affections of an inappropriate relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.
- John Eldredge
Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.
- John Eldredge