Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

[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.

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

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

I'm so full I can't hear.

If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

Saints don't fill the belly.

Trust me: I eat a lot. I am a big guy.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

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

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.

I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you're gonna burst, so I try not to do that.

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

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

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

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

People take the feeling of full for granted.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.