Andy Stanley Quotes

The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.

Hunger is good discipline.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

Don't be hungry when you go shopping, but don't overeat, either.

Believe me, there's nothing I hate more than feeling hungry.

I need healthy options around, or else if I get hungry, I'll go straight for a cookie.

I don't really get hungry that much. Sometimes I get cravings for certain foods. But I can go all day without eating.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.