Poverty Quotes

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

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.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

By doing good, we do well.

Our aid is work for the American people.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.