Poor in spirit Quote by Gilbert Mylender

“On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should…

— Frank Schaeffer

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to…

— Gary Smith

“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“One of the reasons being involved in a church is critical to following God is because church is about others.”

— Chris Travis

“Behind every downward trend in society lies the church’s permission in one form or another.”

— Klaus Bockmuehl

“Finding god in the poor is easy. Divinity doesn’t dwell in the rich. It can’t stand them.”

— Myriam Gurba

“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.”

— Gabriel Chevallier

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

— Timothy Keller

“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it…

— Mark Twain

The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to…

— Pope Francis

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain