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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.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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.
