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If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.

— Munshi Premchand

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

— Woodrow Wilson

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

— Joyce Meyer

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

— Joyce Meyer

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

— Sojourner Truth

The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.

— Kimbal Musk

✗Opposing Perspectives

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

— Thomas Fuller

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

— Paracelsus

Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor.

— Heber J. Grant