Bible Quote by Sho Baraka

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the…

— Pete Buttigieg

There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern…

— Tony Campolo

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles…

— Thomas Sprat

Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized,…

— Thomas Cahill

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

— David Platt

“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

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

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love…

— Saint Augustine

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

— Rigoberta Menchu

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker