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“President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"”

Ends Body President Marriage Kindness Couple Eternal Ceremony Courtesy Courtship Sustenance Marriage Ceremony

Author:David O. McKay

“Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.”

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.”

Life Giving Firsts Art Soul Water Tree Land Sacred Ancient Branches Ritual Goddess Egypt Peasants Sustenance Ancient Egypt Deceased Memphis Epithet Dead Trees Ancient Art

Author:Larry Gates

“The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?”

Source: The Best and the Brightest

“My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.”

Way Moments Running Pleasure Taken Complexes Dry Proportion Sheer Calculations Colony Typewriters Sustenance Neurons Bacteria Nucleus Complex Systems Mitochondria

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.”

Made Form Fighting Energy Lost Meat Eggs Mediocrity Atoms Decay Cream Secretary Delicious Inevitability Sustenance Confederation

Author:Julie Powell

“That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.”

Ifs Way Giving Light Kindness Helping Others Buddhist Lit Lamps Sustenance

Author:Nichiren

“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.”

Love Heart Light Religious Power God Love Islamic Muslim Sustenance Islamic Wisdom

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance, or rendering that agreeable to the taste which is essential to the support of life, and of pleasing the palate without injury to the system, is, strictly speaking, a branch of chemistry; but, important as it is both to our enjoyments and our health, it is also one of the latest cultivated branches of the science.”

Source: Culinary chemistry: exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary substances employed in domestic economy, with observations on the chemical constitution and nutritive qualities of different kinds of food : with copper plates

“Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.”

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.”

Mind Body Earth Produce Divine Fruit Substance Sustenance

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term”

Needs Long Term Enemy Healthy Long Term Sustenance

Author:James Cameron

“The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.”

World Giving Reality Purpose Suffering Evil Given Causes Views Accepting Midst Offering Biblical World View Sustenance Evil And Suffering

Book:Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil

Source: Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil

“Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.”

Source Findings Dependence Fasting Sustenance

Author:Dallas Willard

“History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.”

People Men Humans May Use Term Results Struggle Records Happened Land Mankind Products Degrees Direct Prosperity Productivity Rely Soil Sustenance Erosion Fertile Soil Soil Erosion

Author:Hugh Hammond Bennett

“Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.”

Source: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.”

Ifs Body Hands Individual Race Situation Circumstances Approach Constitution Species Variety Assured Adapted Liable Sustenance Organised Multiplying Propagation Conceiving

Author:James Hutton

“People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.”

People Reason Hands Might Lying Bears Winter Soldier Stations Scholar Livelihood Sustenance Paws

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.”

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.”

Knows Beautiful Purpose Individual Pleasure Creation Expression Development Survival Contribution Thread Beneficial Sustenance Tapestry Tapestry Of Life

Author:John Templeton

“The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.”

Men Way Mean Seems Turns Women Imagination Practice Possibility Deny Defined Consistently Inward Sustenance

Author:Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

“Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to open up the high frontier. What we do during the next ten or twenty years may determine whether future generations will live in a humane and rewarding society, or whether they will spend their lives in desperate contention for the dwindling sustenance afforded by our limited terrestrial resources.”

Years May Lasts Next Nations Space Generations Ten Resources Twenties Determine Desperate Crucial Frontiers Humane Future Generation Our Generation Contention Sustenance Affluent

Author:Philip K. Chapman