Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known read more

Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.