Quotes about Spiritual Nourishment
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
— John Henry Newman
I believe that the preaching of the living word of God is something that Africa hungers for.
— Reinhard Bonnke
Fasting is about ingesting the Word of God, the beauty of God, the presence of God, the blessings of God. Fasting is about spiritual indulgence!
— Sam Storms
If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.
— Samuel Rutherford
The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.
— Oswald Chambers
A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.
— John Piper
The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be united with us in every way.
— Bernardino of Siena
There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.
— Jonathan Edwards
Yeast will not only rise bread, but also the human spirit -Jim Carey
— Epicurus
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
— Ignatius of Antioch
So prospective evangelists, do what Jesus did. Walk with sinners, open the Book, break the Bread.
— Robert Barron
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.(Isaiah 55:10—11)
— Derek Prince