Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

It's not in the heart of America to see others go hungry.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

Food banks have become such a powerful symbol in part because they're inescapable.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

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.

Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Being a mom, I am even more inspired to really help make a difference. I can't imagine what it would be like if my child didn't have a meal to eat.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

It's all about love.