Real Life Quotes: Addiction Quotes

Saturday, June 25, 2022

Addiction Quotes

Quotes About Addictions

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), A Certain World (1970).
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke, author (1852-1933).
Every clinging addiction I ever had came from a vain attempt to 'fill my cup' with something other than the Spirit of Christ. Mark Wylie, Young Adult Minister for the University Church of Christ in Denver, CO.
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings. Peter McWilliams.
He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor and theologian (1906-1945), Life Together.
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise. Chuck Palahniuk, Satirist, novelist, b. 1961.
I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
If you don't play, you can't win. Connecticut Lottery advertisement, paid for by politicians with dollar signs in their eyes.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves; the prisoner of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich (b. 1926), Austrian born American educator and priest.
Men of intemperate mind never can be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. François duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French philosopher.
Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid (43 BC - AD 18).
O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. Ann Landers.
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. John W. Gardner, b. 1912, American Educator.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Jurist (1841 -1935).
Sin never fulfills its promises. It will take you farther than you wanted to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay, and make you pay more than you could ever afford. Ken Davis, from Lighten Up.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle, 19th-century Scots-English historian, author (1795-1881); Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, (1840).
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. Yiddish Proverb.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology (1890).
Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. Benjamin Waterhouse, medical doctor (1754 - 1846).
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (1848-1908).
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? Clifford Stoll.
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. David Ryan.
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. --MAYA ANGELOU

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1 Timothy 3:3, 8 NASB95 - 3 not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. ... 8 Deacons likewise [must be] men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,

Titus 1:7 NASB95 - 7 For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,

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