Quotes about Poverty

The Bible's message for women doesn't depend on ideal circumstances, but applies fully to those who live in the brutal outskirts of society where poverty engulfs, education is nonexistent, women's bodies are ravaged, and lives are in constant peril simply because they are female.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.