#indulgence

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. ↗

— Billy Graham

#indulgence #lack #lifestyle #now #over

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#gloom #humour #i #indulgence #laugh

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

#emotional #famous #generally #god #immediate

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ↗

— Saadi

#enemy #enmity #excepting #friend #increases

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#disgust #hatred #immortal #indifference #indulgence

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ↗

— George Carlin

#insanity #lies #lying #self-indulgence #truth

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#discuss #gossip #indulgence #juicy #piece

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. ↗

— William Law

#cares #certainly #christian #christian life #death