Bread takes the effort of kneading
but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
David Richo
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Jesus said “Give us THIS DAY our daily bread”,
knowing that you cannot fight today’s battles with yesterday’s bread.
Knowing that you cannot fight today’s battles with the hope of tomorrow’s bread.
Knowing that today you will be nourished by this daily bread,
and it’s what you have to fight today’s battle.
Steve Maraboli
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars,
but do life’s plain common work as it comes
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Bread is so fundamental to the human experience
that breaking bread is the literal root of the word “companion.”
(unknown)
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We cannot love God unless we love each other,
and to love we must know each other.
We know Him in the breaking of bread,
and we know each other in the breaking of bread,
and we are not alone anymore.
Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust,
where there is companionship.
Dorothy Day
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“When we break bread and give it to each other,
fear vanishes and God becomes very close.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen