Quotes about Hunger

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.

We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.