Quotes About Sustenance

I have to have breakfast, or I will literally pass out.

Without bread, there is no present or future. Without bread, life only suffers.

Real connection and intimacy is like a meal, not a sugar fix.

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

Taking your pinch of arsenic every morn so you can survive to sunset. Another pinch at sunset so that you can more-than-survive until dawn. The mirco-arsenic-dose swallowed here prepares you not to be poisoned and destroyed up ahead.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Trabajando se come y comiendo se vive.

the threat of life, so palpable among us, is a threat that can and will be countered by the Creator who continues the work of governance, order, and sustenance. Creation faith is the summons and invitation to trust the Subject of these verbs, even in the face of day-to-day, palpable incursions of chaos. The testimony of Israel pushes toward a verdict that the One embedded in these doxological statements can be trusted in the midst of any chaos, even that of exile and finally that of death.

And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.

However great the challenge, it's easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.

First grub, then ethics." He was implying that ethical decision-making may only be a luxury reserved for those of us who do not need to struggle simply to stay alive.

the standard Chicago hot dog comes with everything you need to sustain life . . . until the bright green pickle relish catches up with you and you die.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

Father, I fix my mind on you today. I won't allow the petty distractions of the world to rob me of the power of your Word that sustains and keeps me in all situations.

Build a man a fire and you warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.

Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source.

the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

It is love—friendship—that sustains us, even in the worst of times, under the worst of circumstances. Even when we have been driven mad. Even when we have killed. We still love. We are still worthy of love. We can still be loved.

my venturings had become desperate searches for the sustenance of torment.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Let my words give you sustenance, nourish your spirit, and take you places you've never imagined. Not just for today when you've read them, but for whatever forever we have in this life. Or the next.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.