To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
The belly comes before the soul.
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
Mary Ann Cross
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.
Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Eats first, morals after.
You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.
We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.
Head of the Sikh Religion
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
You always know. You have basic needs, and when they aren't met, your body sends signals. Hunger, loneliness, exhaustion, thirst, and fear are all signals that something is missing, and you need to act on it now.
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
