Quotes About Nourishment

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?í

I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.

I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.

Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the kingís food.

Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ëMan shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.í”

“They do not need to go away,” Jesus replied. “You give them something to eat.”

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

And He said to them, “Come with Me privately to a solitary place, and let us rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

They all ate and were satisfied,

And there were five thousand men who had eaten the loaves.

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ëMan shall not live on bread alone.í”

Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture.

Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

Her spirit returned, and at once she got up. And He directed that she be given something to eat.

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”