Quotes about Poor
we are flooded with the gifts of neighborliness—the economy of the rich devouring the poor is now inappropriate; we are now flooded with peaceable possibility—the old lust for war and violence is now out of sync; we are flooded with fruitfulness—the technological destruction that seeks to sustain our unsustainable standard of living is now passé.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.
— James H. Cone
The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.
— Randy Ingermanson
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
— Jesse Jackson
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
— St. Augustine
Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.
— Randy Alcorn
Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.
— Mother Teresa