Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Even if materialism brought happiness in this life (which it certainly does not), it would leave us woefully unprepared for the next.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“An essential clue to the understanding of poverty in liberation theology is the distinction, made in the Medellín document "Poverty of the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I do not believe that we should create an atheist culture - I think it leads to debauchery, and I think it… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
The more opulent a temple, the more miserable is the spirit that lives in it. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
“There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex.… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
“I am a priest, and while I listened to your homily this morning, I realized that I have not been the good… — Joseph F. Girzone Copy Share Image
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“This is why humility, spiritual poverty, is so precious: it locates our identity securely in the one place where it will be… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
