Famine Quote by Matthew Henry Download Open image “They that die by famine die by inches.” — Matthew Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Famine Inches
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share
“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human politics rather… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat,… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Those that truly love God will make it their constant care and endeavour to keep his commandments, particularly those that relate to his worship.… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him… As all our knowledge must take rise from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share
“When men drive God's word from them he justly permits their delusions, and answers them according to the multitude of their idols.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE! — Matthew Henry Copy Share
“God's word will stand, and we shall get nothing by disputing it, or delaying to submit to it.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“When God gives law to us, we must give honour to him; when he speaks, we must bow our heads and worship.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“The first that dies is a martyr, and dies for his religion; and of such it may more truly be said than of soldiers… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a… — William Saroyan Copy Share
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
