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Poverty and The Poor The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~ John Berger ~ He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ~ Bible ~ Remember the poor, it costs nothing. ~ Josh Billings ~ The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. ~ Dom H. Camara ~ The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too. ~ Ching-An ~ I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. ~ Anatole France ~ Poverty is the worst form of violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. ~ Henry IV ~ We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover ~ It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. ~ (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal ~ If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ John F. Kennedy ~ I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it. ~ Melville D. Landon ~ Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ~ Jules Michelet ~ Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ~ William Pitt ~ Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. ~ English Proverb ~ A poor man is all schemes. ~ Spanish Proverb ~ The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He. ~ Thomas Raineborough ~ There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. ~ Seneca ~ The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. ~ Eugene Sue ~ No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition. ~ Taylor Jeremy ~ I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation ~ Mike Todd ~ As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days. ~ Archbishop Derek Worlock ~ |
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. ~ Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley ~ O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me. ~ Sir Jacob Astley ~ Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23] ~ Bible ~ So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. ~ Bible ~ Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. ~ George Buttrick ~ The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships. ~ Dr. Alex Carrel ~ Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ~ Leonard Cohen ~ To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind. ~ Meister Eckhart ~ Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone. ~ Robert D. Foster ~ Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ~ Ruth Graham ~ Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. ~ Etty Hillesum ~ There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ~ Ivan Illich ~ Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you. ~ St. John of the Cross ~ The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~ If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary. ~ Isobel Kuhn ~ That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. ~ Mechthild of Magheburg ~ Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list. ~ Stan Michalski ~ Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ~ John Milton ~ The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday. ~ Roselle Mercier Montgomery ~ More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ~ Mother Teresa ~ We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency. ~ Harold C. Phillips ~ One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer. ~ Proverb ~ Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly. ~ Edward Bouverie Pusey ~ If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open. ~ Lyell Rader ~ Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. ~ Dame Flora Robson ~ It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs. ~ Schillerbuch ~ Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. ~ John Selden ~ Common people do not pray; they only beg. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening. ~ C. Neil Strait ~ Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it. ~ Jeremy Taylor ~ Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson ~ Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ~ Martin Tupper ~ Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ~ Mark Twain ~ Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation. ~ Source Unknown ~ We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~ Charles C. West ~ Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves. ~ David J. Wolpe ~ |
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