Quotes about Orphans
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
- Exodus 22:22
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:17
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- Job 22:9
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 24:9
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Proverbs 23:10
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Isaiah 10:2
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Jeremiah 49:11
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- Lamentations 5:3
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- James 1:27
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.
- Ellen White
For the hundreds who vanished and for the thousands who didn't. May your stories not be forgotten. For those who help today's orphans find forever homes. May you always know the value of your work and your love.
- Lisa Wingate
It's hard to believe that, not so many years ago, orphaned children were little more than chatte
- Lisa Wingate