Quotes about Hunger

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.

You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.

For Nature and Creature, without the Christ of God or the Divine Life in Union with it, is and can be nothing else but this mere Emptiness, Hunger, and Want of all that which can alone make it good and happy.

A great deal of power is thus lost in the Church. Fastings and vigils, without a special object in view, are time run to waste. They are made to minister to a sort of self-gratification, instead of being turned to account for the good of others. They are like groaning in sickness. Some people amuse themselves when ill with continuous moaning. The forty days of Lent might be annually spent in visiting adjacent tribes, and bearing unavoidable hunger and thirst with a good grace.

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

The young people are hungry for God.