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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that. -- Karen Morley
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. -- Sharron Angle
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread. -- Studs Terkel
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience. -- Honore de Balzac
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! -- Chip Ingram
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. -- John Owen
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
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. -- Ivan Pavlov
It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity. -- Alfred Delp
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. -- Bernard Baruch
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy. -- Mother Teresa
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. -- Studs Terkel
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year. -- Ambrose
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions. -- Francis Chan
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill. -- Paulo Coelho
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received. -- C. S. Lewis
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? -- Randy Alcorn
The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill. -- T.S. Mathews
There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love. -- Marge Piercy
...the best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.... -- Pablo Neruda
Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To be honest, bread constipates me, and I like to have my daily bowel movement. -- Jessica Simpson
Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words. -- Sarah Bird
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread. -- Anzia Yezierska
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. -- Hendrik Willem van Loon
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread. -- Thomas F. Wilson
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. -- James Joyce
We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. -- Sharron Angle
A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread. -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread." -- Henry Ward Beecher
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. -- Geraldine Brooks
The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body. -- Myrtle Reed
While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts. -- Frederic Dan Huntington
The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime. -- Billy Graham
Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed -- Andy Partridge
Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread, -- Wendell Berry
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds. -- Fulton J. Sheen
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. -- Hannah More
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust. -- Ivan Turgenev
Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake. -- Louisa May Alcott
It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread. -- Pablo Alvarado
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer. -- Oscar Wilde
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together. -- Bill Moyers
A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state. -- Gustav Radbruch

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