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Divine Blessings: Hunger and Thirst:

Quotations

'Hungering denotes desiring good from affection, because bread in the internal sense is the good of love and charity . . . thirsting denotes desiring truth from affection" (Swedenborg A.C. 4958).

'He hath filled the hungry with good things', and the rich he hath sent empty away' (Luke 1, 53).

'Jesus saith unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst' (John 6, 35).

'Hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness' (Isaiah 55, 2).

'Thou art the Bread of Life,
   O Lord, to me,
Thy holy word the truth
   That saveth me'.
          (A. Groves)


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