Quotes about Sustenance
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
— CS Lewis
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
— Mother Teresa
Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
— Randy Alcorn
So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.
— 1 Kings 17:15
Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
— Mark 2:25
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
— Dallas Willard
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
— Ellen White
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.
— St. Augustine
All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
— Psalm 104:27
God made us to consume food. He did not make food to consume us.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Health requires healthy food.
— Roger Williams
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
— Genesis 3:19