Quotes about Poverty
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
— William Booth
Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.
— Thomas Merton
Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
— Mother Teresa
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
— Mother Teresa
Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.
— Eric Metaxas
We who are sometimes obsessed with social conscience can no longer imagine a world without it, or a society that regards the suffering of the poor and others as the "will of God.
— Eric Metaxas
I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.
— Lauren Daigle
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
— Sojourner Truth
For a matter of seconds, he felt an immense satisfaction that he could talk of suffering to them now without hypocrisy--it is hard for the sleek and well-fed priest to praise poverty.
— Graham Greene
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.
— Nelson Mandela
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
— Aristotle
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.