Quotes about Nourishment

If we are not careful to daily drink of the 'living waters,' we can easily and slowly become strangers to the Lord and his ways and to our own divine identity and purpose.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

When God is serving wine, drink. When He's serving bread, eat.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

God wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. One is an extension of the other. It's impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. The branch isn't connected only at the moment of bearing fruit. The gardener doesn't keep the branches in a box and then, on the day he wants grapes, glue them to the vine. No, the branch constantly draws nutrition from the vine. Separation means certain death.

We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely winters of life. We linger in the abode of Christ and never leave.

Thank you, God. For the jam on our toast and the milk on our cereal. For the blanket that calms us and the joke that delights us and the warm sun that reminds us of God's love.