Fasting, family prayer... control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptures-each act of dedication and obedience is a drop added to our store.
There is more to living than sating bodily appetites.
Are you falling of late too much under the power of your bodily appetites?
But he was advised to fast or eat less to tame his bodily appetites.
His "present concerns revolve around the gratification of those very bodily appetites that, earlier, he had resolved should be out of his life.
But the satisfaction of the bodily appetite is not alone sufficient to gratify the mind; and even among brute-creatures, we find, that their play and dalliance, and other expressions of fondness, form the greatest part of the entertainment.
He had strong bodily appetites, he ate and drank freely, smoked a great deal, and occasionally was carried off by his passions for a "bit of a spree" to Birmingham or Liverpool or Manchester.
Even so, he believes that abstinence is the best path for those who are gifted by God to restrain the bodily appetites.
Verres was no Dolabella when it came to bodily appetites.