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Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
John 6:35 (NIV)C.S. Lewis, *The Weight of Glory*:
"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
G.K. Chesterton, *Orthodoxy*:
"The point of putting a thing first is not that you will get it, but that you will get something infinitely better. The man who puts pleasure first does not get pleasure; he does not get anything. The man who puts God first gets everything."
Athanasius, *On the Incarnation*, §4:
"For the solidarity of mankind is such that, by virtue of the Word's indwelling in a single human body, the corruption which goes with death has lost its power over all. You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because of his dwelling in that single house, the whole city is honored, and enemies and robbers cease to molest it. Even so is it with the King of all. He has come into our country and dwelt in one body amidst His many. And the consequence is that the whole body of men is honored by the indwelling of the Word, and the plague of corruption is ended."
George MacDonald, *Unspoken Sermons:: *
"The one principle of hell is -- 'I am my own.' The one principle of heaven is -- 'I am not my own.' It is not that we must give up this or that particular thing; we must give up the root of all things -- self. And this is not a thing to be done once and forgotten; it is the daily, the hourly business of the man who would follow Christ. The old self must die daily, and the new self must rise in its place -- not in some dramatic moment of conversion, but in the quiet, repeated choosing to die to self-interest, self-preservation, self-will."
What hunger are you trying to satisfy with something other than the One who said, "I am the bread of life"?
Cato the Younger, as recorded by Plutarch, *Life of Cato the Younger*:
"When Cato saw that the people of Utica were wavering between loyalty and treachery, he neither forced them to be good nor raged at them for their weakness. He simply went about his own duties with a steady hand, making his own life the argument. For he believed that the strongest persuasion is not in words but in a life so ordered that it cannot be gainsaid. A man who will not compromise his own integrity has no need to compel others -- they will either follow his example or expose their own disorder."
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