Our Daily Bread Quotes

• Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Grateful

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• God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

  Chip Ingram

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Poverty, Worship

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• Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Love Is, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Bread, Protection

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  Paracelsus

  Skills, Preparation, Bread

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

  Bill Moyers

  Growing Up, Giving, Together

  Source: progressive.org

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• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What
  about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Thinking, Years

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• To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Poverty, Bread

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.207

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Government, Bread

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". Interview with Rick Wiles, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  Karen Morley

  Song, Kings, Unions

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• I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

  Wendell Berry

  Wall, Book, Thinking

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.311, Counterpoint

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  Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

  Wendell Berry

  Bread, Common, Wonder

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.311, Counterpoint

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• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Taken, Thinking

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• It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread.

  Pablo Alvarado

  Struggle, People, Unity

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• The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.

  Gene Veith

  Mother, Father, Military

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• Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Long

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• "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Names, Giving

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• The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.

  T.S. Mathews

  Media, Pills, Sugar

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• We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Blessing, Bread

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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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