God Quote by Richard Coles

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial…

— Victor Hugo

God sends us the poor to try us… And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given…

— William Penn

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

— Henri Nouwen

In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long…

— Oswald Chambers

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

— Mother Teresa

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

— Pope Francis

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in the Kingdom…

— Norman F. Cantor

“we are all equally poor and helpless in the eyes of God, and all have equal need that He should not forget us.”

— Johanna Spyri

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

— Myriam Gurba

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

— Henri Nouwen