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Quotes About Sustenance

These are the believers in truth; they shall have from their Lord exalted grades and forgiveness and an honorable sustenance.
~ Unknown
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
~ Corazon Aquino
Men are the best cooks. Because with two eggs, one sausage & a little bit of milk, he can fill a girl's tummy for nine good months.
~ Unknown
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.
~ William Shakespeare
I eat every 15-20 minutes to keep my energy levels up.
~ Lizzie Velasquez
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
~ Diane Setterfield
It made me feel less mortal, less ordinary. It was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum. It was the keystone that held the whole cathedral up. And it was awful to learn, by having it so suddenly vanish from under me, that all my adult life I'd been privately sustained by that great, hidden, savage joy: the conviction that my whole life was balanced atop a secret that might at any movement blow me part.
~ Donna Tartt
The painting had made me feel less mortal, less ordinary. It was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum. It was the keystone that had held the whole cathedral up.
~ Donna Tartt
Every living thing which God creates requires food. The life that God imparts needs sustaining and nourishing. It is so with animal and vegetable life,—with birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, insects, and plants. It is equally so with spiritual life. When the Holy Ghost raises a man from the death of sin and makes him a new creature in Christ Jesus, the new principle in that man's heart requires food, and the only food which will sustain it is the Word of God.
~ J.C. Ryle
human beings, cans of living preserves
~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
The bin of flour was not used up, not did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke to Elijah. 1 Kings 17:16 We
~ Jack Canfield
There were tiny loaves for dolls, and warm dinner rolls, and long French bread, and braided rings of bread, and thick loaves as big and round as wagon wheels, and even entire wheat-colored cottages of crusty bread which when you lived in them were more like yeasty caves in a gigantic mountain of bread, and all you had to do in order to feed your self in heaven was pull a hank of soft, moist bread right out of the wall.
~ Jack Gantos
The entire world is hungry. For one thing or another. They thirst. They hunger. They crave. Wine. Entertainment. Knowledge. Sometimes for the mundane work of sustenance. And sometimes for lust.
~ Unknown
The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Like a giant doomed to eat damsels, Q. must fill a vast daily quota of attention and adulation from varied sources. In a small town he might run out of people, but by keeping in constant motion, he's in no such danger. The only danger is to those suppliers of attention who expect some continuity of response, who fail to understand that for Q. people are an inexhaustible natural resource for his sustenance and delight, like air or water or sunshine.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Water is the blood in our veins.
~ Unknown
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
~ Pat Summitt
Life worth's more than anything because it sustains your everything
~ Unknown
Prayer is the food of life that will fill you when there's nothing left.
~ Unknown
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Glauben empfangen wir von Gott immer nur so viel, wie wir für den gegenwärtigen Tag gerade brauchen. Der Glaube ist das tägliche Brot, das Gott uns gibt.
~ Unknown
One must labor for beauty as for bread
~ John Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
~ John Muir