Quotes about Nourishment
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- Samuel Johnson
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
- Victor Hugo
I have often noticed that Jesus will not give me a store of provisions; He nourishes me with food that is entirely new from moment to moment, and I find it in my soul without knowing how it got there.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- Virginia Woolf
The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well
- Virginia Woolf
The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes. We are all
- Virginia Woolf
When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There's nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.
- Larry Crabb
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Charles Dickens
Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as if most other sauce to wretched bread. Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meager children; and lovers, with such a word around then and before them, loved and hoped.
- Charles Dickens
Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.
- Gregory Dickow
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
- Martin Luther