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Poverty Quotes by Pope Francis
- To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be…
- When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer…
- A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between…
- Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.
- Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is…
- I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill:…
- We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our…
- The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In…
- Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a…
- We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful…
- The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from…
- When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.
- I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is…
- We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only…
- Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich…
- Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
- The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
- If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.
- How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!
- In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our…
- It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we…
- Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is…
- ...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire…
- We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In…
- ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin