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
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