Material Poverty Quotes

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

I offer you what I have my Poverty

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Nothing appeared rich but the churches, nobody fat but the clergy.

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.