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Quotes about Spiritual Nourishment
Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
— Pope John Paul II
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.
— Charles Swindoll
This invitation to a meal is an invitation to intimacy with God.
— Henri Nouwen
As a Christian, I am called to become bread for the world: bread that is taken, blessed, broken and given.
— Henri Nouwen
The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.
— Henry B. Eyring
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.
— Henry B. Eyring
Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.
— Mother Teresa
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.
— Oprah Winfrey
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
— William Wilberforce