For Religious Folks: What Do You Think of This Quote?

[Ella S.]

It's one of the areas I agree with them. They go on later to explain that indulgence is not impulsiveness (subjected to whims and fancies, so to speak). It's more about not denying one's self finer things if they so wish and also about rational self-interest.

When I think of somebody indulging in their whims and fancies, I'm not thinking of somebody who is impulsive, personally.

A fancy is usually a long-standing preference that remains more or less consistent over a good chunk of time.

A whim might be more akin to being impulsive, but it doesn't necessarily need to be. You can act on your whims more than other people do without being impulsive.

To me, all you're saying is that they prioritize their fancies over their whims. That doesn't change anything to me.