Quotes about Hunger

The narrative knows the way in which hungry peasants, in need of food from the monopoly, will pay their money, then forfeit their cattle, and then finally give up their land, because Pharaoh leverages food in order to enhance his power. In the end, the peasants are so "happy" that they asked to be "owned":

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.