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“If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.”

Ifs Way Long Lasts Young Asks Poor Rich Died Warrior Fearless Coward

Book:Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.”

Ifs Want Needs Inspiration Faith Asks Wish Waiting Voice Prayer Poor Catholic Ashamed Our Prayers Anticipate Serving Others Needy Alms

Author:Thomas of Villanova

“Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.”

People Ifs Giving Should Persons Has Beens Order Asks Forget Poor Pay Happened Concerned Wine Staff Consent Wages Employers Obliged Trifles Charitable Workmen Alms Supervision

Author:John Vianney

“You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.”

People Ifs I Can Asks Poor Car Coaches Ask Me Poor People

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.”

World Should Asks Poor Rich Demand Occupation Unemployed Maids Old Maids

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”

People Ifs World Kind May Hands Christian Asks Imagination Poor Hell Atheism Reader Terrible Devil Injustice Positive Atheism Cruelty New World Poor People Beggar Masquerade

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.”

Ifs Asks Poor Saint Communist

Author:Dorothy Day

“Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .”

Ifs Giving Wells Helping Home School Asks Poor Huge Amount Clothes Give Me Foundation Plenty Hospitals Old People Jewels Eva Peron

Author:Bill Vaughan

“"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"”

Thinking Love Wells Kind Littles Said Two Asks Poor Party Pieces Couple Tables Aunt Supper Well Said Depreciate

Book:Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…

Source: Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…

“It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.”

Asks Poor Money Easier Wealthy Borrowing

Author:Anton Chekhov

“O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.”

Love Mean Evil Asks Poor

Author:Nazr Mohammed

“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?”

Men Humans May Stills Sometimes Earth Asks Animal Poor Wonder Watches Late Flight Aviation Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.”

People World Want Feels Littles Long Different Sometimes Reason Asks Poor Drug Empty Thirds Plant Peasants Wrong Things Third World Wrong Reasons

Author:George Carlin