Sermon quotes on alcohol
Dave Barry
W.C. Fields
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Graham Greene
There was a tacit understanding between them that ‘liquor helped’; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”
Mitch Hedberg
Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.
Eugene Peterson
Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence–religious meaning–apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.
Frank Sinatra
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
A.E. Houseman
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.
Stonewall Jackson
Brennan Manning
Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.
Amitava Dasgupta
Many studies have concluded that moderate drinkers live longer than nondrinkers and enjoy a better quality of health.
Amitava Dasgupta
According to a 2006 report by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, each year approximately 5,000 young people under the age of twenty-one die as a result of underage drinking (approximately 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle accidents, 1,600 as a result of homicide, 300 from suicide, and others from injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning).
Mary Bell
Achievement is the alcohol of our time.
H. Rubin, Article: “Success and excess”– fast company.
John Calvin
Wine is God’s special drink. The purpose of good wine is to inspire us to a livelier sense of gratitude to God.
Homer Simpson
Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
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