The verse which you want more than any other, and which you had better make your whole Bible for the present, is that wonderful passage in Deuteronomy: "I led thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with food that thou knewest not, to teach thee that man does not live by bread alone" - no, not by what you and I think a necessary of life, that without which we cannot live - love, success, fulfilled desire - "but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Most High," Whether that word ("thing" in the revised version) be failure or success, love or heart hunger, uselessness or abounding labor - by that does man live. Our life is distinctly a supernatural life, and we are always longing for a natural life, and God let us go hungry of the natural life in order that we may enter into the supernatural, and our wish to be taken up into His.
Ellice Hopkins
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