Quotes About Sustenance

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance

Living things die, after all, without attention. Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?

J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

When have we required anything of you? Except to survive?

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?