Quotes about Nourishment

No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God's Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of them. He is with us in our kitchens, at our tables, on our breadlines, with our visitors, on our farms. When we pray for our material needs, it brings us close to his humanity. He, too, needed food and shelter; he, too, warmed his hands at a fire and lay down in a boat to sleep.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Without rain, there would be no life.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

Every time you reach for food, ask yourself, 'Will this cleanse or clog me?'

Some of us have little spiritual vitality because we fail to feed on Christ day by day. Over time, we become spiritually anorexic.

Some of us have little spiritual vitality because we fail to feed on Christ day by day. Over time, we become spiritually anorexic.