Quotes about Poverty

The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

The libertarian view that the state has no responsibility to care for and empower the poor flies in the face of clear biblical teaching.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The poor, who have nothing in themselves, to them comes the kingdom. The meek, who seek nothing in themselves, will inherit the earth. The blessings of heaven and earth are for the lowly. For the heavenly and the earthly life, humility is the secret of blessing.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

We see how many tricks they try, how many pursuits they exhaust themselves with in order to secure the objects of their ambition or greed, while trying to avoid, on the other hand, poverty and humility.

Let those who have abundance remember that they are surrounded with thorns, and let them take great care not to be pricked by them; and let those who have little and are very much hemmed in know that God planned [their poverty] to keep them from evil and hurtful snares.

Our lust is furious and our greed limitless in pursuing wealth and honors, chasing after power, heaping up riches, and gathering all those vain things which seem to give us grandeur and glory. On the other hand, we greatly fear and hate poverty, obscurity, and humility, and so we avoid these realities in every way. Thus, we see that those who order their lives according to their own counsel have a restless disposition. We