Quotes About Poverty

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.