All Quotes By Tag: Poverty

“I don’t like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don’t like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don’t find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they’re at.”

“Religion is one of the oils with which we alleviate the friction between those who have a lot and those who have nothing.”

“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”

“Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient”

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”

“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”

“For Ragamuffins, God’s name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair – for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.”

“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.”

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”