Money Quote by Thomas Merton

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

— H. L. Mencken

“And if one feels anything in the presence of God save an utter poverty of spirit, it ultimately means that you have never faced…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

— Mother Teresa

Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty.…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

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

— Dennis Banks

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason…

— Socrates

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty.…

— Neville Goddard

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

— Henri Nouwen

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

— George Orwell

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

— Pope Francis

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