"I am God's wheat and shall be ground……" — Ignatius of Antioch
"I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread."
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Ignatius of Antioch
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61 Quotes by Ignatius of Antioch
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It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as…
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For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy…
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I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood,…
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Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord…
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Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I…
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But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down…
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[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.
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Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the…
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As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and…
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Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body;…
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It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I…
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I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread,…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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