Destitute Quotes

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. — Ambrose Bierce
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. — Charlie Chaplin
It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those… — Peter du Moulin
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those… — Menno Simons
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely… — Charles Dickens
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that… — Thomas Berry
I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common… — Thomas Jefferson
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all… — Thomas Paine
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy,… — Samuel Chadwick
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… — Thomas Berry
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the… — Mother Teresa
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your… — Charlie Hunnam
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of… — Ambrose Bierce
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love… — Timothy Keller
Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God. — Erwin W. Lutzer
The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and consequently destitute of… — Pliny the Elder
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not. — Publilius Syrus
I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually… — King O'Malley

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