Listening Quote by Doris Janzen Longacre

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen…

— Jean Vanier

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

— St. Vincent

We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that…

— Echo Bodine

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better…

— Sinclair Lewis

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

— Henri Nouwen

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of…

— Pope Francis

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

— Timothy Keller

Poor is the church without music

— Anonymous

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

— Lester Roloff

We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how…

— J. I. Packer