Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

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

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

A hungry man is an angry one.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread?

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.