Hungry Quotes - Page 34

• One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

  Corita Kent

  Jesus, Women, Religion

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• The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Leadership, Teacher, Real

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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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• When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with reflection to the glory of God, remembering the God Who feeds us, and above all His incorruptible food, His Body and Blood, that out of love He has given Himself to us in food and drink, remembering also the holy word of the Gospel.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Reflection

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• I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Restless, Wretched

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• I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

  Geneen Roth

  Two, Healthy, Needs

  Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

  Pope Francis

  Food, Giving, Excess

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• The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

  Paulo Freire

  Sleep, World, Splits

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• They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

  Russell Means

  Knowledge, Pie, Wonder

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• I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fall, House, Naked

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• I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

  Dave Sim

  Mean, Thinking, Feet

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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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• Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Jesus, Brother, Sick

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• The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

  Paul Farmer

  Children, Ideas, Haiti

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• Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Elderly, Sick

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• A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
  who's hungry and where their mouth is or
  who's out of work and where the job is or
  who's broke and where the money is or
  who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Jobs, Gun

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• Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

  Pope Francis

  Waste, Stealing, Poor

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• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

  Johnny Cash

  Black, Towns, Sides

  Song: The Man In Black

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• We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.

  Anis Mojgani

  Kissing, Lips, Ghost

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• As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, Focus, Needs

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• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Struggle, Drinking, Writing

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

  Roy Choi

  Reflection, Cities, Guy

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• Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Fowl, Taste, Venison

  Lynn Flewelling (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.167, Spectra

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