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“While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.”

People Christian Poverty Morality Demand Caught Lifestyle Destructive Materialism Caught Up Family Life Christian Morality

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.”

Mean Night Behinds Poverty Cutting Streets Morality Ethics Winter Fishes Shelter Blast Barrels Sustaining Gutters Morality And Religion Winter Night Sustaining Life

Author:Horace Greeley

“It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.”

Easy Process Poverty Involved Morality Dinner Stealing

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and destitution, fair and equitable distribution of land, integrity in the judicial system, humility, simplicity and morality in the government (as opposed to wealth, women and weapons), etc. etc. If you want that kind of society, you need to be faithful to the living God.”

Kind Wealth Justice Poor Compassion Poverty Humility Morality Integrity Protect Abuse Simplicity Faithful Homeless Refugee Judicial Being Faithful

Author:Christopher J. H. Wright

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

Life Children Doe Happiness Success Political Politics Attitude Poverty Morality Tests Criminal Mind

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer