Quotes About Nourishment

spiritual infants are not able to "distinguish good from evil," and as we have observed, these are identified by the fact that they are still feeding on spiritual milk, or "elementary truths.

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)

Jesus gave a vivid object lesson his last night with the disciples by washing their feet, like a servant. Parents know the self-giving principle by instinct as they pour their energies into their self-absorbed children. Volunteers in soup kitchens and hospices and mission projects learn this lesson by doing.* What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

true—eating the right foods, the ones we've

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

Il faut apprendre la terre, c'est indispensable, savoir ce qu'elle est. Il faut l'aimer sans niaiserie, en reconnaître les principales maternels et nourriciers. Il faut la travailler en tenant compte du savoir et du sentiment, avec la force du corps. (p.242)

I libri pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The physician of the soul is aware that his patient will receive no nourishment unless he has been cleaned out; and the soul of the Great King himself, if he has not undergone this purification, is unclean and impure.

I can't let this be destroyed. We have few enough things to feed our souls.

Without Laura here, food is the only thing I love that loves me back.

a household was a creature of bottomless hungers. It ravened for wood and coal and white starch, for sailcloth and bread and ale; for breath and sinew, and life itself, which wreathed away invisibly beneath the press of daily labor like the wax of a lit candle.

For those who could not afford to hire a cook, restaurants that sold restaurants—"restoring broths

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.

When you're on the run from the law, you need beans in your belly, tough-guy food.