Matthew 6:26
Douay-Rheims
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
John Chrysostom (attributed)
For God created all animals for man, but man for himself; therefore by how much the more precious is the creation of man, so much the greater is God’s care for him. If then the birds without toiling find food, shall man not find, to whom God has given both knowledge of labour and hope of fruitfulness?
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:26-27
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.