822 Quotes About Poor

Often it is the poor who recognize emptiness before the rest of us—and for obvious reasons. While I am not suggesting that poverty predisposes people to some form of righteousness, I have seen how their circumstances often free them from much of the pretense that our relative privilege affords us. So while the poor are not godlier on the basis of their poverty, they are often at least more authentic in their brokenness, and thus, perhaps, closer to honestly recognizing what true emptiness is.

When Mary asserts explicitly that God is on the side of the poor, we can understand it within the tension of what it means to be blessed as the poor in spirit. Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing. Jesus is here declaring that the humble and repentant heart is the fertile soil of his kingdom.

The really poor is he who misuses what he has. The really rich is he who well uses what he has.

[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.

When Poor, Overdress. When Rich, Underdress.

She needs someone to take care of her. Look at the poor thing. She's been trying so hard to hold everything together and take care of her mom that she doesn't know how to do anything else. And in the meantime, who has been taking care of her? No one.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.

It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits than the freedom of no healthcare, bills that cannot be paid and starvation.