"The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow." —Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." —Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
"If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great." —John Piper, A Hunger For God
"I saw the world I had walked since my birth, and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger." —Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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