Quotes About Nourishment

By drinking the Spirit, the bride becomes one with the Spirit....If we drink of the living water day by day, the Body of Christ will be built up, and the bride of Christ will be prepared.

We do not need religion, and we do not need regulations and rituals. We need Christ to be our spiritual food.

Bare empty space is a relative new conception — one that would be alien, unfamiliar, and incomprehensible to people of primal and ancient cultures. If we think of these earlier views of space and time as naive, misinformed, and anthropomorphic, we must at least recognize the sense of home, security, and support the earlier conceptions of space gave to those who believed and dwelt in them. We have given up this nourishing quality of space — of our abode — at our peril.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another's life and thought to your own.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Are you eating?" I asked. "You have to keep up your strength." "All of a sudden you're grown and worrying about me, instead of the other way around. Seems like yesterday you were just a little boy.

Before we eat any meal, vegetarian or meat, we should always remember the beings that have died so that we can eat. Their lives were just as important to them as your life is to you. Think of them with gratitude and pray that their sacrifice will be a cause for them to be reborn in a higher realm—and for you to be healthy, so that you can quickly, quickly reach full enlightenment in order to lead them to that same state.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

The first part of this book presents a new view of the mechanisms of cancer. This view is based on the fundamental but still little-known workings of the immune system, on the discovery of the inflammatory mechanisms underlying the growth of tumors, and on the possibility of blocking their spread by preventing new blood vessels from nourishing them.

But it had been a few moments since Joe had last eaten and he was hungry.

When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.

Put your food dollars toward nutrients, not calories.

Safe for now," Nat murmured. That had been another of the Shepherdess's dicta. Whenever you were safe, even if it was for a short time, it was important to give yourself a chance to exhale, to take nourishment and rest and live to fight again.

Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves.

The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and there's only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself.

The soul can only be sustained by the spirit.

Seek the prosperity of thy soul.

We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food.

Spirituality is the food for the soul, spirit and the body.