Bread Quote by Thomas Aquinas

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

— Thomas Aquinas

True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made…

— John Calvin

“The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.”

— David Servant

“To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man alive who…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Through His grace God has dealt bread to the hungry and clothing to the poor. At various times in our lives that will include…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to…

— Daniel H. Wells

“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what…

— Dan Fagin

“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a…

— Barry Unsworth

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

— Dorothy Day

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive…

— Ayn Rand

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell -…

— Johann Most