'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and genial, within whose influence it is as good for the poor in spirit to live,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important… — Albert Nolan Copy Share Image
“God is not looking for heroic figures, wonderful people who captivate others with their charisma. It must have been quite baffling to… — Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt Copy Share Image
“The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we struggle to grasp the biblical view of joy because of the way it is defined and described in Western culture… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“The Church risks irrelevance when it makes central God's preference for the poor and not His universal favor toward the poor in… — Gilbert Mylender Copy Share Image
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Riches and rank have no necessary connection with genuine gentlemanly qualities. The poor man with rich spirit is in all ways superior… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
May those who are poor in spirit and heart find their way to GOD and act in GOD's way. For this I… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where… — Clay Walker Copy Share Image
Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of… — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
“And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor in spirit . . . .” This is the first principle in the kingdom of God. The underlying… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
