Top 1200 Spiritual Hunger Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.

There are very few movies that become real phenomenons the way 'Twilight' or 'The Hunger Games' did.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental necessity of integrity in both faith and art.

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world." You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out that they were doing some kind of spiritual work to elevate the sparks. In my life and career, I've had the opportunity to find myself where I could make some spiritual moves, to do some work that is spiritually important.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

Anyone who's watched 'The Hunger Games', or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe. If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it's going to end and when it ends I'm going to do something good.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

I've still got the hunger and yeah, a point to prove. Everybody loves playing in the Premier League, don't they?

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.