Quotes About Poverty

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

Go to the poor there you will find God.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Homeless people bear God's image too.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

True poverty does not come from God.

The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.