excess

When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous_ but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst!

Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much.