Starving children have no liberties.

LEFT LEFT LEFT a wife and SEVenteen children in STARVing condition with NOTHing but gingerbread

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Those who will not work deserve to starve.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him. Come with me.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

We are a species that evolved to survive starvation, not resist abundance

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall — when you fall, you’re going to fall like a starving man.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.