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“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”

Jesus Poverty Birth Connections Opposites Simplicity Ceremony Jesus Birth

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”

“In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.”

Poverty Simplicity

Book:What is Zen?

Source: What is Zen?

“poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.”

Needs Poverty Simplicity

Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.”

“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

“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”

Enough Poor Money Poverty Rich Simplicity Contentment Poorest Rich And Poor Simple Living Frugality Rich Poor Riches And Poors Poor In Spirit

Author:William Shakespeare

“All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.”

Thinking Believe Made Dream Pain Beautiful Used Felt Silence Poverty Guilt Simplicity Generous Nightmare Sense Of Humor Waking Ugliness Eloquent Awkwardness

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”

“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”

Ifs World Facts Hands Poverty Healthy Findings Mere Lifetime Simplicity Casts Excited Generous Pennies

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.”

Ends Past Joy Certain Secret Silence Poverty Simplicity Dinner Oil The End Of The Day Sweetness Lamps

Book:Happy Death

Source: Happy Death