Quotes about Hunger

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted."

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.