Quotes related to Matthew 25:40
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
— Sojourner Truth
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
— Norman Vincent Peale
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
— Charles Dickens
Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about — like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
— Philip Yancey
Homeless people bear God's image too.
— Philip Yancey
Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.
— Philip Yancey
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.
— Philip Yancey
As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
— Philip Yancey
God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
— Philip Yancey
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
— Philip Yancey
For people who have long-term disabilities, one of the best things we can do is to provide tools that allow them to resume "normal" activity.
— Philip Yancey
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
— Desmond Tutu