Destitute Quotes

79 quotes by 70 authors

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves… — Tracy Kidder
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute.… — Dorothy Day
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it. — Alan Redpath
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that… — Vilfredo Pareto
The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who… — Jimmy Carter
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the… — Samuel Chadwick
Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters. — Samuel Chadwick
Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the… — Samuel Chadwick
Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor… — Swami Vivekananda
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. — Thomas Bulfinch
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it,… — Torbern Bergman
The people at the CafÃ© Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender,… — Anders Petersen
As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to… — Ambrose Bierce
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor… — Lord Acton

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