Core Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

— Mother Teresa

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

— H. L. Mencken

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

— Dennis Banks

The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly…

— John Calvin

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

— George Orwell

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

— Pope Francis

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving…

— Thomas R. Kelly

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we have no…

— Eric Garcetti