Hunger And Thirst Quotes

• To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  World, Righteousness, Hunger

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Body, Prompts

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.90

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• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Exercise, Weekend

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• 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 church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Church, Tables

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• What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Powerful, Heart, Reflection

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Heart, Cutting

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pride, Cost, Cold

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• The God of Love lives in a state of need.

  Plato

  Love Life, Needs, Imbalance

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Death, Country

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• Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

  Mencius

  Men, Mind, Mouths

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.357

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• Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jesus, Brother, Sacrifice

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• Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Blessed, Sacrifice

  "The Cost of Discipleship".

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• We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes, House

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• For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Evil, Hunger

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Learning, Knowledge, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

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• The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Justice, Virtue

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• As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

  Akhenaton

  Men, Endurance, Camels

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• Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Ancient, I Loved You

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Grief, Past

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• Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dark, Water, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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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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