John Owen Quotes

In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life." (John 6:27). He then continued by talking about the true bread from Heaven the bread of God, and the bread of life. (John 6:32-35). Here He appeals to the soul for its nourishment and our thoughts to the spiritual way so as not to occupy our minds with the body and its needs.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.

He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

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

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.