Quotes about Poverty
I'm sorry, I don't mean to judge, but I've read the gospels quite a few times, and it seems pretty clear that 'Christian values' are: 1-humility, 2-non-judgementalism, 3-caring for the poor, 4-compassion, 5-love, and 6-serving God.
— Moby
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
— Mother Teresa
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.
— Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
— Mother Teresa
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
— Mother Teresa
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
— Mother Teresa
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
— Mother Teresa