Quotes about Poverty
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!
— Anonymous
The poor shall never cease out of the land.
— Anonymous
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
— Anonymous
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
— Anonymous
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.
— Anonymous
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?
— Anonymous
The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.
— Anonymous
They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.
— Anonymous
The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
— Anonymous
The libertarian view that the state has no responsibility to care for and empower the poor flies in the face of clear biblical teaching.
— Ron Sider
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
The poor, who have nothing in themselves, to them comes the kingdom. The meek, who seek nothing in themselves, will inherit the earth. The blessings of heaven and earth are for the lowly. For the heavenly and the earthly life, humility is the secret of blessing.
— Andrew Murray