"In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
― Woodrow Wilson
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God
More From Woodrow Wilson
- "I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
- "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
- "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
More In God
- "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"― Robert Kennedy
- "Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws."― John Adams
- "Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him."― Joseph Franklin Rutherford