Top 84 Quotes About Food And Soul
#1. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love ...
Dalai Lama
#2. He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.
Galen
#3. I do not believe in organized religion, herbal remedies, yoga, Reiki, kabbalah, deep massage, slow food, or chicken soup for the soul. The nostrums of Deepak Chopra and Barbara De Angelis cannot rescue people like me. I believe in crazyass passion.
Rinker Buck
#4. Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.
Ted Nugent
#7. Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.
Sarah Weeks
#9. I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
George Tillman Jr.
#10. I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.
Sara Sheridan
#11. Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.
Michael Mina
#12. In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it were, annihilates Himself and reduces Himself to food, that He may penetrate our souls and unite Himself to the hearts of His faithful.
Saint Francis De Sales
#13. Your spiritual life needs food ... where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.
Billy Graham
#14. I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.
Nicole Ari Parker
#15. I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
China Machado
#16. All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost ... Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
G.K. Chesterton
#17. Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
Erykah Badu
#18. Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones
#19. Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
Julie Andrews
#20. All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
Aristotle.
#21. By overloading the body with food you strangle the soul and render it less active.
Seneca.
#22. Sometimes, as much as writing saves one's own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another's. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.
Lilith Saintcrow
#23. Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.
Ken Hom
#24. Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this "body and soul" connection into the light
Mary DeTurris Poust
#26. Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#27. The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.
Mariska Hargitay
#28. By He in whose Hand is my soul, I have lived amongst people who never ordered food to be prepared for themselves If [food] was presented to one of them, he would eat, otherwise, he would be silent; and he would not care if it was hot or cold.
Abu Nuaym
#29. I've been lucky to always have a healthy relationship with food. I also love to be consistent with meditation and make sure that I am supplying my body, mind, and soul with everything it needs to function.
Cara Santana
#30. Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
Salman Rushdie
#31. The Bible is the great treasure for the curious sinner, fresh water for thirsty painting soul, the revealed truth for the true seeker or worship per,the unrevealed truth for the wrong seekers, a guide to the blind and eternal food for the hungry soul.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#32. Yes, the rich. And that's their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child's food, you prevent the growth of its bones, and he'll be a dwarf; and if from his youth up you poison a man with gold, you deaden his soul. Once,
Maxim Gorky
#33. I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
Zach Johnson
#34. Dare to make it to heaven and in doing so, carry many people along! Be a soul winner!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.
David Soul
#36. Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies.
Gerard De Marigny
#37. Your soul is a pure, white light in a dark world. It will take a thousand worse sins to taint it."
Andrew turned to him. "What sins would those be?"
Rory grinned, slowly, devilishly. "Give me food, first, for strength, and I will show you.
Rosemary O'Malley
#38. Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.
Arnold Ehret
#40. And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.
Fannie Flagg
#41. I have human friends, obviously. But everything's easier with a cat. He wants a little fish soup in a saucer and the occasional scratch on the head. I want the illusion that an animal bred to trade affection for food can understand the inquietudes of my soul.
Anthony Marra
#42. And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, buy of their gifts also.
For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.
Kahlil Gibran
#43. Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#44. The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
Henry Ward Beecher
#45. We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body.
Nana Awere Damoah
#46. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
Laura Hillenbrand
#47. Be nice. Funny. Smart. Generous. Kind. Feed your body with good food. Your soul with good friends. And your mind with new things.
Jillian Dodd
#48. I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.
Grace Gealey
#49. Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
Amanda Palmer
#50. Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.
J.C. Ryle
#51. Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.
John Muir
#52. And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
#53. A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#54. Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.
A.D. Posey
#55. My DVR, like, sees inside my soul, and inside my soul is a 65-year-old retired woman. So there's Food Network, HGTV and 'Golden Girls' reruns. And 'Roseanne.'
Ross Mathews
#57. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.
Pat Williams
#58. Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.
Giada De Laurentiis
#59. His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.
Roger Housden
#60. Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.
Nahmanides
#61. Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
Andre Simon
#62. What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#63. Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
Deepak Chopra
#64. What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible.
David Sax
#65. One verse chosen to meet our needs, read ten times and then laid up in the heart, is better than ten verses read once. Only so much of the word as I actually receive and inwardly appropriate for myself, is food for my soul.
Andrew Murray
#66. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.
Harold Bell Wright
#67. When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
Mario Batali
#68. The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
Myrtle Reed
#69. Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.
Sister Souljah
#70. Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
Saint Augustine
#71. The 'good food' is ... the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.
William Griffith Thomas
#72. O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love ... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls? ... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#73. Self-help and those stupid proverbs, they do nothing. Soul food? It's like trying to cure starvation with a sugar cube. It might taste sweet on the lips but once it dissolves, the emptiness is still there.
C. Sean McGee
#74. I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.
Naturi Naughton
#75. The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.
Herman Melville
#76. Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Dolly Parton
#78. As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.
Adrian G. Hilder
#79. The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.
Richard Baxter
#80. Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
Gaines Adams
#81. If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#82. For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
Daniel Boulud
#83. Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#84. Dreams and Imagination are the food of the soul for good people and also their source of energy.
Daniel Marques
