Quotes About Sustenance

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.

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

Tutto era razionato: zucchero, sapone, olio, e soprattutto il sale in zucca, ché di quello ce n'era davvero poco. Perché quando che hai fame, e questo chissà se tu lo puoi capire da là dove stai, la testa non funziona più come prima, s'incaglia, ché non ti consola nemmeno avercela ancora sul collo, se non te ne fai più niente.

God is my provider.

The Great Mother does not say that destruction is wrong. She simply provides all that her children dream of

The world is nothing without life, and all that lives takes nourishment.

H.P. Lovecraft is a self-admitted early influence on Ligotti's work. However, in a kind of metaphysical horror story of its own, Ligotti early on subsumed Lovecraft and left his dry husk behind, having taken what sustenance he needed for his own devices. (Most other writers are, by contrast, consumed by Lovecraft when they attempt to devour him.)

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

By the end of the day, nearly 3½ tons of flour, rice, sugar, barley, lentils, vegetables, and jam

Greenstreet observed: "The food now is pretty well all meat.

The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation.

How have you been, Gracie?" "Alive.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

I'm the head of my home. And I have to get my daily bread by chasing Christ.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

Remembering God's work in the past has a sustaining and renewing effect during times of spiritual drought. Memory and worship are thus keys to a long life of spiritual formation. Try

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already

The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun's energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer. Brian Swimme

I told myself Tyson was going to pick up their laptops, but half a mile later they joined the drive-thru line at an In-N-Out Burger. Tyson. Eating was constant. Maybe he needed sustenance before they retrieved the laptops.

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

Para qué preocuparse de lo que comería, de lo que bebería, de lo que introduciría en la miserable caja de gusanos, que se llamaba mi cuerpo terrestre?