Quotes about Starvation
and of AIDS. The virus too small to imagine travelling through our fluids, even a drop or two of saliva or cunt slime, and unlocking our antibodies with its little picks, so that our insides lose their balance and we topple into pneumonia, into starvation. Love and death, they can't be pried apart anymore.
- John Updike
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
- Oscar Wilde
The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.
- NT Wright
If you're physically starving, you will groan, but spiritual starvation will make you groan too. So here's the good news of the Christmas story: the birth of Jesus is an invitation to the best, most satisfying dinner ever.
- Paul David Tripp
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Jeremiah 38:9
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- Lamentations 5:10
I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.
- Tony Campolo
The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.
- Shane Claiborne
The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.
- Billy Graham
They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people in other countries in crises of starvation or war.
- Anne Lamott
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
- Alice Walker
We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.
- Audre Lorde