Hunger For God Quotes

• The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

  John Piper

  Christian, Keys, People

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• The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Hunger

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• If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

  John Piper

  Strong, Long, Drunk

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.25, SPCK

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• Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Doe, Worship, Hunger

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Loneliness, Hunger For Love, Hunger And Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, People, Giving

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• Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Energy, Vigor

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

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• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Loneliness, Medicine

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

  Michael Card

  Art, Heart, Hunger

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• I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the rules and was political. I think now people have a hunger for God, they want to have a relationship, but they don't want to be called religious. I'm not trying to get them to join my religion, I'm just trying to plant a seed of hope in their heart.

  Joel Osteen

  Religious, Heart, Thinking

  "Joel Osteen Talks Pope, Gays And Why You Should ‘Pray For Big Things’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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