Satiety is extremely harmful for the soul. Whoever overindulges in food or drink is incapable of spiritual exercises and can neither pray nor reflect on any thing divine, because excess in food draws a person into laziness, sleepiness, idleness, idle talk, ludicrous behavior, and a great multitude of impure thoughts and desires.
– Metropolitan Gregory Postinikov of Petersburg
Featured image: from the Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia, Vol. 4. 1903