September 16

On Gluttony

“Next, common things may be defiled by an excess in the use of them. This may be done by gluttony. What a defilement it is of bread, the staff of life, and of those comforts which God gives to us for food, when a man makes his own belly into a god, whose temple is his kitchen.” (2495.591)

“We may by excess in either way bring ourselves into conditions in which the mind will not act, and I believe, mark you, that gluttony is as much a sin in the sight of God as drunkenness, and that, in fact, any eating or drinking which unfits us for communion with God becomes sinful at once.” (3346.134)