Quotes About Poverty Bible

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

Gustavo Gutierrez

#2. God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all - no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Ronald J. Sider

#3. It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well ...

John Carmack

#4. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,
I am not true, I am not false,
I am just me,
a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Christian magazine Sojourners, likes to point out that the Bible contains more than three thousand references to alleviating poverty - enough reason, he thinks, for making this a central moral issue for Christians.

Peter Singer

#6. I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

Arj Barker

#7. A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

David Platt

#9. ... the scriptures... when properly examined and rightly divided, do not portray Jesus as a poverty-stricken individual. On the contrary, Jesus is seen as a Man whose needs were met and who was regularly involved in meeting the needs of others.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#10. One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Tom Robbins

#11. I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#12. It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you'd like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

Angela Thomas

#13. Art is too important not to share.

Romero Britto

#14. The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

Jonathan Sacks

#15. What separates courage from fear are the thoughts we choose to believe.

Charles F. Glassman

#16. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Orwell