Tag: Poverty (home)

Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes for prisoners, the hospitalized, pilgrims, cripples, churchmen, and others. If only ten [other groups of] people were willing to do this, there wouldn't be a single poor man left in town.

permalink source: St. John Chrysostom (345?-407)
tags: Money, Giving, Compassion, Poverty

Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1902

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Money, Poverty

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor. -- Mother Teresa

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Compassion, Poverty

Dallas Willard observes, “being poor is one of the poorest ways to help the poor.”

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Money, Giving, Poverty

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