“Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.” WorldDoeMotherPovertyYouthDivineIntroducingFrugalityStepmothers Author:Honore de Balzac
“The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.” WorldNeedsMindHelpingHeavenPoorPovertyRichDivineDivine LoveRagsScarletGod HelpHelp The PoorLazarus Book:The Quotable Spurgeon Source: The Quotable Spurgeon
“Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.” GivingHumansSelfSpiritualLife IsAsksJesusPovertyDivineUnionsSaintGods WillHolinessSpiritual LifeFaithfulnessForgetfulnessSelf Forgetfulness Author:Mother Teresa
“True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.” ReligionSufferingPovertyTeachHumilityDivineDespiteReverenceDisgraceMockeryTrue ReligionWretchednessSuffering And Death Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.” KnowsHas BeensClassPovertyGenerationsDivinePursuitHinduismExclusive Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.” IfsAsksGivenPovertyLandDivineMiseryTyrannyObedienceSicknessStalkingGod ExistsEragonCustodiansHandiwork Author:Christopher Paolini