Quotes About Nourishment

Forget calories. Focus on quality. Let your body do the rest.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day.

The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.

I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

God made food; the devil the cooks.

God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.

Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.

God made us to consume food. He did not make food to consume us.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.

If God is in everything, why shouldn't you taste Him when you eat?

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.