Haile Selassie Quotes

Man does not live by bread alone.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

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.

It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

It's very important not just to think you need to eat and drink and sleep. You need to feed your heart and your mind and your soul as well.

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

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

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.