Destitute Quotes

Destitute Quote of the day

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.

I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

Young, gifted, and destitute.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

I hear, "Yes, Let us more education invest!"Whilst destitute, Outside their gates doth rest, Women, children, and men, Poor and a hungered!Odd that colleges fill, Yet mercy is numbered.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.