Quotes About Poverty

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.

He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich manís table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abrahamís side. And the rich man also died and was buried.

But Abraham answered, ëChild, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.