Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
This does not deny some importance to fleshly and material needs, nor the binding obligation of Christians to alleviate to the fullest extent of their abilities such needs of their fellow beings, and especially of their fellow disciples.  But let people slow down in their mad pursuit of secular and material values and more adequately concern themselves with the ultimate needs of the soul.  After all, the latter are eternal needs, the former only temporary needs.