Quotes about Poverty
and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
— Luke 21:2
For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
— Luke 21:4
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
— John 12:8
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
— 1 Corinthians 4:11
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
— 2 Corinthians 8:2
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
— 2 Corinthians 8:9
Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
— James 2:2
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
— James 2:15
I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
— Revelation 2:9
Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.
— Paulo Coelho
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
— Samuel Johnson
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
— William Saroyan