Portuguese Proverb Quotes

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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

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

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

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.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

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.

A hungry belly hears nobody.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics.

If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.

All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.