Quotes about Sustenance

There was no water. Food by tons would have no value. You need water to survive. If the ravens brought Elijah filet steaks, fresh vegetables and the best-tasting bread it would have meant nothing.

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8—12

Having been faced with a dried-up brook—a closed door if there ever was one—Elijah needed a window. He got it: The Lord told him to go to Zarephath of Sidon where a widow would look after him. The ravens and the brook, then, were to be succeeded by a Gentile widow about a hundred miles away. Zarephath was outside Israel in Gentile territory. It turns out that God had been at work behind the scenes: "I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

the threat of life, so palpable among us, is a threat that can and will be countered by the Creator who continues the work of governance, order, and sustenance. Creation faith is the summons and invitation to trust the Subject of these verbs, even in the face of day-to-day, palpable incursions of chaos. The testimony of Israel pushes toward a verdict that the One embedded in these doxological statements can be trusted in the midst of any chaos, even that of exile and finally that of death.

Father, I fix my mind on you today. I won't allow the petty distractions of the world to rob me of the power of your Word that sustains and keeps me in all situations.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

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

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

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.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.