Appear Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor…

— Cesar Chavez

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

— Rich Mullins

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

— Lester Roloff

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

— Pope Francis

“The Church risks irrelevance when it makes central God's preference for the poor and not His universal favor toward the poor in spirit.”

— Gilbert Mylender

“In his encyclical Deus caritas est, Benedict XVI correctly recalls that “Christian charitable activity must be independent of parties and ideologies. It is not…

— Robert Sarah

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

— Claudio Hummes

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes…

— Henri Nouwen

“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

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit…

— John C. Maxwell

It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus…

— Rich Mullins