Quotes about Scarcity
The fucking world is running out of gas.
- John Updike
One must be careful to hold fast to the fact that God makes promises and defers the things promised, and that He tries us with a scarcity of available things in order to instruct us in faith in the promise and in order that this faith may be strengthened and may learn to believe God not only in prosperous times, when things are available, but also in adversity, when things are lacking.
- Martin Luther
The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.
- Pam Grout
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
- Genesis 26:1
When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,
- Genesis 41:53
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
- Genesis 41:57
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 43:1
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
- Genesis 45:6
There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
- Genesis 47:13
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
- Genesis 47:20
So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
- Exodus 7:24
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:26