Quotes about Sustenance
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
- Dallas Willard
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
- CS Lewis
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
- Charles Stanley
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
- Woodrow Wilson
He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.
- Martin Luther
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Are you drawing your life from any source other than God Himself? If you are depending on something else as your source of freshness and strength, you will not realize when His power is gone.
- Oswald Chambers
One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.
- Paul David Tripp
in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.
- Paul David Tripp
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 3:19
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
- Genesis 6:21