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• Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

  Rumi

  Half, Letters, Nests

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• Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Generosity, Joy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.243, Penguin

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• He who eats my bread, does my will.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hard Work, Doe, Classroom

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• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

  Wendell Berry

  Distance, Wine, Air

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• The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

  Yvor Winters

  Jobs, Poetry, Tables

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• To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Hands, Lovely

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

  Mother Teresa

  Needs, Poverty, Dignity

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• The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fun

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Southern, World

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.293, Penguin

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• There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Brother, Husband, Father

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.1655, e-artnow

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• If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

  William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

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• People who eat white bread have no dreams.

  Diana Vreeland

  Dream, White, People

  Quoted in Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins The Power of Style (1994).

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• To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Pieces, Faces

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• The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

  Billy Graham

  Soul, Doe, Meals

  Billy Graham (1994). “Answers to Life's Problems”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God is inexhaustible in His gifts to men? Everywhere we see plenty and joy; only the greedy rich lay their hands on and keep in their treasuries too many of God's gifts, which might plentifully nourish hundreds and thousands of poor. Man! Believe firmly in God's inexhaustibility in His gifts, and willingly 'deal your bread to the hungry' (Isa. 58:7)?

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• ...if anyone looks with faith at the mystical table and the Bread of Life placed on it, he sees the Person of the Word of God, Who was made flesh for our sake and dwelt among us (John 1:14). If he shows himself a worthy receptacle, he will not only see but become a partaker of Him, receive Him to dwell within him, and be filled with His divine grace.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Bread Of Life, Grace

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• Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

  Robert Grudin

  Work, Rewards, Making Money

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

  Pope Francis

  Stress, Dignity Of Work, People

  Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Nature, Rags, Paper

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Bible, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Hunger never saw bad bread.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Saws, Hunger

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.

  Daniel H. Wells

  Blessing, Feet, Giving

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• Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Son

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

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