A rich state formed by poor people is absurd! The state cannot build its prosperity on the poverty and poverty of its citizens.
Wealth is power. Poverty is weakness. We nurtured weakness. And she turned to us with her scary side.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Unite with a church that has a real active interest in the salvation of the lost, where young Christians are looked after and helped, where minister and people have a love for the poor and outcast, a church that regards its mission in the world to seek and save the lost.”
—R. A. Torrey
Let me pray for all my fellow-creatures, for all that are in pagan ignorance, particularly for the poor negroes, both in Africa the the West Indies. O Lord, do Thou at length visit them with spiritual blessings and a termination of their temporal sufferings. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
“We must love or we cannot bless. Teaching is poor work when love is gone; it is like a smith working without fire, or a builder without mortar.”
A rich man has fifteen rooms for three people and he won’t let a poor man spend the night in his home and get warm.
A peasant has a fifteen-foot wide hut for seven people and he gladly takes in a stranger.
—Leo Tolstoy
Let me pray for all my fellow-creatures, for all that are in pagan ignorance, particularly for the poor negroes, both in Africa the the West Indies. O Lord, do Thou at length visit them with spiritual blessings and a termination of their temporal sufferings. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
—Socrates
We by sin have made ourselves poor, needy creatures; but God has provided for us gold tried in the fire.
—Jonathan Edwards
All language is but a poor translation.
—Franz Kafka
Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
—Michelangelo
None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Who, being loved, is poor?
—Oscar Wilde
“Shall I not tell to others what the grace of God has done for me? Shall I not lay hold of every poor sinner’s hand, and say, Look you to Christ, and you also shall be saved, even as I was?”
– Charles Spurgeon
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
—Henry David Thoreau
I believe there are many poor and noble families in Florence with whom it would be a charity to become allied, even if there were no dowry, because there would also be no pride.
—Michelangelo
It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
—Seneca
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
—Charles Darwin
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
—Aristotle
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
—Seneca
Wealth, and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
—Plato
Poverty doesn’t come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
—Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
—Plato
Go on, go on, thou poor disciple of a poor Master! Do as He did in the days of His flesh!
—John Wesley
O the grace and mercy of Christ which are still ready for me, a poor persevering sinner, who have so long trifled with the concerns of my soul’s salvation.
—William Wilberforce