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Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.
- Lisa Wingate
Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough" (Matthew 13:33 NLT). Yeast gets into the dough and slowly works its way through the entire batch. The promise is this: the goodness of Jesus will work its way through your entire being. Jesus is the yeast
- John Eldredge
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
- Victor Hugo
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Charles Dickens
For the sharing of bread is not such a simple thing nor is its acknowledgement. Whatever thanks be given, however spoke or written down.
- Cormac McCarthy
A lamplit table spread Old hospitality Of cheese and wine and bread. - 1993 V Remembering Evia
- Wendell Berry
Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.
- William Tyndale
The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out...For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?
- Thomas Merton
Acorns were good till bread was found.
- Anonymous
I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.
- Jack Kerouac
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
- Victor Hugo
If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
- Victor Hugo