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After five years of a sad and disgruntled marriage BoyBoy took off. During the time they were together he was very much preoccupied with other women and not home much. He did whatever he could that he liked, and he liked womanizing best, drinking second, and abusing Eva third. When he left in November, Eva had $1.65, five eggs, three beets, and no idea of what or how to feel.
— Toni Morrison
Generational sins, hereditary diseases and systemic poverty are not a part of our royal status. Yet in reality, trespassing demonic spirits oftentimes stymie the full benefits of our inheritance.
— Kris Vallotton
The Bible's message for women doesn't depend on ideal circumstances, but applies fully to those who live in the brutal outskirts of society where poverty engulfs, education is nonexistent, women's bodies are ravaged, and lives are in constant peril simply because they are female.
— Carolyn Custis James
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
— George Bernard Shaw
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
— Mark Twain
I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
— Martin Luther
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
— St. Basil
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— Catherine of Siena
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.
— David Platt
The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.
— Myles Munroe
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
— Alistair Begg