“Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.” LightSpiritWealthPovertyHeavyPurses Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.” CountryLightUsedPovertyThousandSeniorWalletsPoints Of Light Author:Barney Frank
“How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!” MenEndsLightPoorPovertyChildhoodTunnelsGloomPoor ManRailwayFuture LifeExtremity Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.” KnowsShouldBodyLightWould BeJoyHeavenFriendshipPovertySunSweetFlowerSeasonsDistanceFavorsPleasantRaysExhaustedImpartWithout Friends Author:Saint John Chrysostom
“...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.” NeedsPersonsLongLightGovernmentTodayAmericaSufferingOpportunityWishBornPovertyDestinyColorSucceedSkinsShiningLiftsOur DestinyYour DestinyPledgeBright LightsShine OnThose In NeedControl Your Destiny Author:John Edward
“We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.” IfsMadeLightPovertyTechnologyWeekPlantAvailableChinaDoomedCoalNew TechnologyPower Plants Author:Jay Inslee
“The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.” PeopleShouldMadeRealCountryRealityLightDiesGirlPoorLeaderPovertyRichLike YouSickMedicineDefinitionsCriminalsHotelExpensesHospitalsObsceneObscenityIrresponsibility Author:F. Sionil José
“I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing” WayMayLightDiesWealthPovertyWillingHonorPromiseAll ThingsBeing TrueBelovedSicknessCherishI PromiseRedeeming Love Author:Francine Rivers
“The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.” LightLife IsSpiritJesusGrowsCausesChristRealizingPovertyDarknessOur LivesAwarenessSonJesus ChristHumbleDeeperKingdomsBelovedRejoiceJoyfulKingdom Of GodWondrousTenorsLife Is A GiftIneptitudeBeloved Son Book:The ragamuffin Gospel Source: The ragamuffin Gospel
“Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.” NeedsCountryWholeLightMotherCertainPovertyPathRichEventsDevelopmentIndustryResourcesAllowingExploitsColonyMother Country Book:The Damned Source: The Damned