Quotes about Poverty

The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty (Proverbs 21:5).

Maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Perhaps it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.