
Top 100 Quotes About The Needy
#1. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney
#2. Moreover the wealthy may have pity beyond right on the needy that befriended them when they were in want.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. Life is all about Takeaways from great people and Giveaways to the needy ones.
Vikrmn
#4. May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
Guru Nanak
#5. If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.
Thomas Of Villanova
#6. The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.
Max Anders
#7. We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our "help" includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and above all to God.
Randy Alcorn
#8. The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.
Donald Miller
#9. If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.
Stephen Colbert
#10. Do we ignore the needy
to spite the greedy?
Or share and defend
despite those who pretend?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. Mercy to the needy is a loan to Got), and Got) pays back those loans in full.
Eugene H. Peterson
#12. The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.
Alexander Theroux
#13. Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.
H.W. Charles
#14. If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.
Lewis B. Smedes
#15. If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.
Beth Moore
#17. To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
#18. America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.
Thomas Peterffy
#20. To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
Gautama Buddha
#21. Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of wealth you acquire".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#22. If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
Saint Basil
#23. Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.
Randy Alcorn
#24. I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.
Cliff Richard
#25. If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy ... people who don't have no food ... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
B.B. King
#26. The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
Omar Khayyam
#27. When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger
Pope Francis
#28. If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.
Poul Hartling
#31. It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
Robert Reich
#32. Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah
Chester Bennington
#34. ..you are retained as counsel for unhappy mankind. You have promised to help those in peril by sea, those in captivity, the sick and the needy, and those whose heads are under the poised axe. Whither are you straying? What are you doing?
Seneca.
#35. Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of
Philip Yancey
#36. It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.
Frank Laubach
#37. God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.
Mike Bickle
#38. Use your tithe and offering to take care of the needy and destitute
Sunday Adelaja
#39. PSA72.4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Anonymous
#40. In my plain thoughts I don't know what else is needed to make this the happiest as well as the most respect-worthy situation in the world - except
for a taste for literature, to throw a little variety and interest into conversation, and some surplus money to give to the needy and to buy books ...
Mary Wollstonecraft
#41. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Evita Peron
#42. Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.
Sylvia Iparraguirre
#43. Life punishes the needy; admit you can't live without something and it's taken away.
Sophie Hannah
#44. For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and h the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
Anonymous
#45. Donate to the extent that even if you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy
Sivaji Ganesan
#46. Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
#47. The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#48. 7You, LORD, will keep the needy safe and will protect us forever from the wicked, 8who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race.
Anonymous
#49. In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
Dana Rohrabacher
#50. Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.
Benjamin Barber
#51. Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy
Ronald Reagan
#52. London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
Samuel Johnson
#53. Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. The worst thing we can do for the needy is neglect them. The second worst thing we can do is subsidize them, helping people get through a day while ignoring how we can help people get through their lives.
David Platt
#55. I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman
#56. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
Epictetus
#58. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Anonymous
#59. THIS YEAR CATHOLIC CHARITIES WILL PROVIDE 2.2 MILLION FREE MEALS TO THE HUNGRY AND THE NEEDY OF CHICAGO. WE DON'T ASK THEM IF THEY ARE CATHOLIC - WE JUST ASK THEM IF THEY ARE HUNGRY. REDISCOVER CATHOLICISM.
Matthew Kelly
#60. What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt ... He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#61. Kindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person.
Kishore Bansal
#62. Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
Ellen G. White
#63. Entrepreneurs make profits by serving the needy. Politicians make profits by creating the needy.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#64. Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
Saint John Chrysostom
#65. There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31)
Marcus J. Borg
#67. We who are Christians, members of God's family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.
Pope Francis
#68. I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
#70. There is a difference between needy and helpless. While doling out free benefits to the needy is condemnable, the helpless must be assisted to get their lives back on track. No one should be living in fear or under oppressive conditions.
Sumit Agarwal
#71. I support helping the needy. I oppose funding the lazy.
Anonymous
#72. ...It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.
Karin Kallmaker
#73. The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.
Lester Roloff
#75. [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.
George Washington
#76. The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
David Platt
#77. Work hard, respect yourself, respect others, and never, ever turn your back on the needy.
J.B. Turner
#79. For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy of the needy: none of them common good of all.
Aristotle.
#80. Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
St. Jerome
#81. I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#82. Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.
Dillon Burroughs
#83. For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted" (Ps. 109:16,
Henry Cloud
#84. Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please
Pope Francis
#85. America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.
Tim O'Brien
#86. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Fanny Fern
#87. If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
Eugene V. Debs
#88. I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.
Karen Armstrong
#89. Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.
John Wycliffe
#90. I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.
Mary Lou Retton
#92. Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#93. I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.
John Gordon Sinclair
#94. The quiet gravity really wasn't his style at all, which had always been both needy and dour; anxious to be liked, but incapable of taking friendliness for granted. A burden of the hugely rich.
Ian McEwan
#95. In public, you're Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you're Jocelyn Butler - you're hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet," he breathed. "I like that I know that. I don't like the fact that other men do too.
Samantha Young
#96. We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it - it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.
Edward T. Welch
#97. ...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.
Alexei Sayle
#98. At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.
Crystal Woods
#99. In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.
Jean Baker Miller
#100. They the royal-hearted women are
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
George Eliot
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