We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of nourishing both the body and the soul.
Lancelot Andrewes highlights the necessity of not only providing for our physical needs, such as food for the body, but also addressing our spiritual and emotional well-being. Just as we seek sustenance for our physical selves, we must also actively seek nourishment for our souls through introspection, learning, and meaningful connections.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one could use this quote to illustrate the importance of spiritual care.
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.
The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
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