Quotes About Serving The Poor

#1. The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

Eugene Rivers

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

Pope Francis

#3. In serving the poor,
one serves humanity.
In serving mankind,
one serves equity.
In serving goodness,
one serves God.
In serving the Creator,
one serves himself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style ... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

Evangeline Lilly

#5. When you kissed me ... I felt special.
I never really felt like I deserved it.
That isn't your fault. That was me.
When I looked down the aisle on our wedding day and you weren't there, my first thought, as awful as this sounds, wasn't, "Where is he?" it was, "Oh, it figures.

Virginia Nelson

#6. Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

Heinz Guderian

#7. Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

John G. Miller

#8. I'm sorry, I don't mean to judge, but I've read the gospels quite a few times, and it seems pretty clear that 'Christian values' are: 1-humility, 2-non-judgementalism, 3-caring for the poor, 4-compassion, 5-love, and 6-serving God.

Moby

#9. At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game.

John Legend

#10. Many of the sisters were Black and poor and from D.C., where every crime is a violation of a federal statute. They were beautiful sisters, serving outrageous sentences for minor offenses.

Assata Shakur

#11. Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

Oswald Chambers

#12. Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

James Stenson

#13. Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

Ghulam Nabi Azad

#14. Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

Daniel Kahneman

#15. I put everything into my hand luggage! Really, I do!

Harley Viera-Newton

#16. A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Bush

#17. American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

Upton Sinclair

#18. Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Heinlein Robert A.

#19. He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Karl Jaspers

#21. Do not expect a lot from people when You Yourself can not give much.

Abigal Muchecheti

#22. What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

Will Rogers

#23. As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

Frederick Lenz

#24. I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

Mother Teresa