Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
Quotes about leanness (5 Quotes)
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
Leanness of body and soul may go together.
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.