Quotes About Sustenance

Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

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”

Give us this day our daily bread.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

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

Give us each day our daily bread.

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ëHe gave them bread from heaven to eat.í”

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”

At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

I am the bread of life.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Have we no right to food and to drink?

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?