Quotes about Privation

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

Objection 1: It seems that God does not know evil things. For the Philosopher (De Anima iii) says that the intellect which is not in potentiality does not know privation. But "evil is the privation of good," as Augustine says (Confess. iii, 7). Therefore, as the intellect of God is never in potentiality, but is always in act, as is clear from the foregoing (A[2] ), it seems that God does not know evil things.

To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.

life, under any circumstances, never ceases to have a meaning, and that this infinite meaning of life includes suffering and dying, privation and death.

How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries;