Quotes about Hunger

Jesus goes up onto the mountain, gathers his disciples around him, and says: "How blessed are the poor, the gentle, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for uprightness, the merciful, the pure of heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness." These words present a portrait of the child of God. It is a self-portrait of Jesus, the Beloved Son.

Radical servanthood challenges us, while attempting persistently to overcome poverty, hunger, illness, and any other form of human misery, to reveal the gentle presence of our compassionate God in the midst of our broken world.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind.

Hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.

We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.