Quotes about Bread

If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.

Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat. 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.

Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

And don't miss this: In John 6, Jesus said—"I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.... This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion time.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

Jesus said, "You of little faith! Why are you discussing among yourselves that you do not have bread?" Matthew 16:8

I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life" (John 6:47—48). Did you notice how Jesus combined the bread of life with everlasting life? Christ is the bread of God's presence to us. His scars are placed before God as a perpetual memorial that the wages of our sins have been paid. Christ said, "This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world" (John 6:51b).

The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

Jesus' first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread.

I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams.