Quotes about Privation

Our best fare here is hunger.

Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in hardness of heart, and so in the want of pious affections of heart, holiness does consist very much in those pious affections.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence .