'Hunger' in the Bible
There He fasted for forty days and nights; and after that He suffered from hunger.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.
tempted all the while by the Devil. During those days He ate nothing, and at the close of them He suffered from hunger.
"Blessed are you who hunger now, because your hunger shall be satisfied. "Blessed are you who now weep aloud, because you shall laugh.
"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!
"I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never thirst.
Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger or the sword?
To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.
by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;
with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.
I know both how to live in humble circumstances and how to live amid abundance. I am fully initiated into all the mysteries both of fulness and of hunger, of abundance and of want.