Quotes about Food

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

Many of us think of our daily nourishment only in terms of what we eat. But in fact, there are four kinds of food that we consume every day. They are: edible food (what we put in our mouths to nourish our bodies), sensory food (what we smell, hear, taste, feel, and touch), volition (the motivation and intention that fuels us), and consciousness (this includes our individual consciousness, the collective consciousness, and our environment).

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.