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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.


K.P. Yohannan


#christian-living #poverty #love

I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet


Habeeb Akande


#ghetto #mindset #poverty #love

The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.


Joan Thomas


#life

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops." "Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said. "Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#calcutta #charity #jesus #poor #poverty

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.


Eugene Victor Debs


#capitalism #feudalism #inequality #justice #labor

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.


Maxim Gorky


#poverty #men

God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly follows the biblical trend that God would choose the unexpected and the culturally "unfit" - like introverts - to lead his church for the sake of greater glory.


Adam S. McHugh


#church #god #introverts #leadership #business

The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.


Tom Robbins


#introvert #men #men

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.


Raymond Chandler


#money #poverty #money

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.


George Bernard Shaw


#money #poverty #money






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