Quotes about Sustenance

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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.

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.

He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”