Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

When we talk about Something More, it isn't wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.

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

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

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.

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

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

God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

The belly comes before the soul.

There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.