Matthew 6:25
Douay-Rheims
Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
John Chrysostom (attributed)
For had He not willed that that which was should be preserved, He had not created it; but what He so created that it should be preserved by food, it is necessary that He give it food, as long as He would have it to be preserved.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:25
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.