nourishest

“Oh pride of heart, with littleness of soul! check this vile arrogance, too vain for man, and spare to others some part of that lenity thou nourishest for thyself, or justly bestow on thyself that contempt thou nourishest for others!”

Cecilia 2008

S. Basil said: We have sent to thee such as we eat, and thou sendest to us of that thou nourishest thy beasts with.

The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

Thy breasts, O God, from which Thou nourishest souls in their beginnings, are so sweet and pleasant, that they render Thy children, and even those who have yet need of the breast, stronger than the stoutest men who are drinkers of wine.

Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life 1879

Thou art blessed, O Lord, who nourishest me from my youth,

Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets 1808-1896 1876

Phoebus, who nourishest so many people by the generation of beasts, and art now adored at the sacred places of Ephesus, thou which art horrible

The Golden Asse 1566

Proserpina, by reason of the deadly howlings which thou yeeldest, that hast power to stoppe and put away the invasion of the hags and Ghoasts which appeare unto men, and to keepe them downe in the closures of the earth: thou which art worshipped in divers manners, and doest illuminate all the borders of the earth by thy feminine shape, thou which nourishest all the fruits of the world by thy vigor and force; with whatsoever name or fashion it is lawfull to call upon thee, I pray thee, to end my great travaile and misery, and deliver mee from the wretched fortune, which had so long time pursued me.

The Golden Asse 1566