Best sick & poor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build some impressive spiritual muscles, but unless we use those spiritual muscles to change our lives, build the church, love our neighbors, and care for the sick and the poor, we...are just posers. Let us not take God's truth for granted.”

Use Care Christian Spiritual Church Poor Our Lives Quiet Sick Neighbor Granted Muscles Conferences Impressive Quiet Time Posers

Book:He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World

Source: He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World

“My Country's trying to save the World, stop the wars, relieve the poor, feed the hungry, heal the sick and liberate the captives that are bound by countries like America!”

World Trying War Country America Poor Sick Bounds Hungry Heal Heavenly Save The World Captives

Author:David Berg

“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.”

“What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.”

“What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.”

Ifs Causes Perfect Poor Existence Yoga Roots Sick Karma Wealthy Ghetto Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”

Source: Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings

“The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell”

World Enough Poor Hell Sick

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.”

Whole Poor Rich Saws Wise Stupid Proud Healthy Sick Humble Fats Beggar Crippled

Author:William Saroyan

“Many of the liberal people tend to say, "Well, the solution is government." I couldn't disagree more. The government cannot solve the problem and never will. I believe the solution to these problems is the church and that the church should be responsible for caring for the sick, and assisting the poor, and educating.”

People Should Believe Wells Problem Government I Believe Church Poor Solutions Sick Responsible Caring Solve Disagree Being Responsible Assisting

Author:Rick Warren

“Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.”

People World Way Able Film Young Song Poor Crazy Huge Taste Sick Majority Active Partners Luxury Minorities Introspection Powerless Recognizing Sexually Systematic Whim Advertisements Homely

Author:Edmund White

“Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.”

Values Strong Poor Company Healthy Ethics Sick Corporations Immune Organisation Immune System

Author:Patrick Dixon

“Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and healthy than sick and poor and that it is necessary to care for 'good of Poland" - clap clap, hurricane of clapping.”

Bigs Care Poor Democracy Rich Politician Healthy Sick Hurricanes Poland Clapping

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.”

Care Kids Poor Poverty Sick Health Care Counterparts

Author:Anna Quindlen

“War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.”

Men Wells War Strong Poor Break Rich Teaching Changed Weak Sick Commandments Rich Man Dead Man Strong Man Antithesis

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.”

Matter Young Poor Rich Sick Who You Are Illness Fats Rich Or Poor Equalizer

Book:Cancer Schmancer

Source: Cancer Schmancer

“For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.”

Mean Dream Reality Age Today Poor Millions Growing Economic Sick Old Age Nightmare Retirement Housing Growing Old Being Sick

Book:Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life

Source: Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life

“I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.”

Father Fun Poor Sick South Plumber Bronx Jewish Family

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life.”

Way Looks Stills Ends Home Hands Reality Seems Grows Fear Sound Wealth Poor Watches Doors Late Gains Crosses Sick Towns Refuse Opening Necks Coming Home Leap Going Out Phantoms Fray

Author:Gina Barreca

“We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires. There is a beautiful and very radical notion in the bible: Man is made in the image of God, no matter how sick, poor or damaged he is. We should try to transpose this maxim to our secular and constitutional self-image.”

Men Should Trying Humans Made Self Matter Action Beautiful Desire Human Beings Poor Moral Limits Standards Sick Notion Radical Secular Maxims God Image

Author:Gotz Aly

“If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'”

Men Should Heart Mean Hands Would Be Lasts Poor Brain Consciousness Rich Conditions Masters Sick Workers Affair Harm Socialism Manage Idle Commonwealth Realisation

Author:William Morris

“My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.”

Men Children Father House Poor Compassion Brother Sick Slave Charity Treated Servant Belonging Tenderness

Book:The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Source: The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.”

World Way Next Poor This World Sick

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.”

Poor Dog Gay Female Sick Presidency Mexican Romney

Author:Andy Borowitz

“I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled.”

Men Poor Alive Magic Sick Died Funeral Rulers Lied Poor Man Lying Men Sick Man

Book:The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

“We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.”

Firsts Moments Christ Poor Dying Taught Sick Disguise Orphan Outcast Distressing Leper

Author:Mother Teresa

“Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”

Needs Giving Enough Kids Poor Car Sick Operations Graduates Sick Kids

Author:Dolly Parton

“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.”

“It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.”

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Author:Duane Hanson

“Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.”

“In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?”

“There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.”

“Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be served, the sick healed, and the dying comforted. None of that is going to change, and I'd wager that it's going to get better.”

Poor Dying Built Sick Committed Get Better Neighborhood Sacraments Healed Parish Wagers

Author:George Weigel

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”

War Care America Young Poor Responsibility Failing Sick Assuming Debt Infrastructure Charitable Staggering Repayment

Author:Stephen King

“If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So in what's considered a poor area, you got to look at things. What's going on there? The actual environment is sick, and sickly, and causes illness.”

Care Poor Environment Cold Sick Illness

Author:Mr. Lif

“I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Feels Mind May Persons Has Beens Real Helping Problem Causes Can Do Poor Support Doubt Duty Sick Charity Worthy Pity Village Far Away Finite Knowing God Worthy Causes

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.”

Way Mind Humans Young Left Poor Position Limits Sick Relation Caring Wander One Way Serving Touching Position Of Power

Author:William P. Young

“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.”

People Should Made Real Country Reality Light Dies Girl Poor Leader Poverty Rich Like You Sick Medicine Definitions Criminals Hotel Expenses Hospitals Obscene Obscenity Irresponsibility

Author:F. Sionil José

“Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.”

Jesus Poor Dying Sick Stranger Naked Prisoner Oppressed Starving

Author:Jean Vanier

“I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.”

People Thinking Wells Looks Persons Doe Sometimes Differences Poor Civilization Sick Right Thing I've Learned Making A Difference Helpless

Author:Christina Dodd

“Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?”

“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.”

May Persons Whole Home Opportunity Poor Share Stage Civilization Sick Population Hospitals Nurse Sick Person

Book:Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.”

Ifs Needs Helping Shows Waiting Poor Greater Comfort Sick Charity Saint Serving Others Small Gifts

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.”

Long Made Hate Poor Lord Ignorance Divine Weak Sick Prison Saint Hunger Prisoner Serving Others Identification

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.”

Poor Poverty Sick Chickens

Author:Bernard Malamud

“When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.”

Should Age Death Strong Poor Existence Teach Rich Sick Prepared Merit Be Prepared

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.”

Children Jesus Social Poor Poverty Sick Structure Flesh Hungry Unjust Social Structure

Author:Pope Francis

“That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.”

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