If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water access for entire countries or fighting to end the AIDS pandemic? Imagine what integrity that would give to the good news we preach, especially the gospel that Jesus declares is good news to the poor.

Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?

times with follow-up questions. Eventually it sank in. The world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases. Now the problem seemed even harder. It wasn't enough to deliver cheap, reliable energy for the poor. It also had to be clean.

The world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases. Now the problem seemed even harder.

I see one-third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished...the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those that have too little