Quotes about Sustenance

Moment by moment I'm kept in His love; Moment by moment I've life from above.

However, as God is the ever-living, ever-present, ever-acting One who upholds all things by the word of His power, and in whom all things exist, the relationship of the creature to God could only be one of unceasing, absolute, and universal dependence. As God by His power once created, so by that same power God maintains every moment.

Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

Unless God feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will be of no avail.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

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.

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives