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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Poor'

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine, Saint (354-430)
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen, British Writer (1775-1817)
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon, English Philosopher (1561-1626)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon, English Philosopher (1561-1626)
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey, American Scientist
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
Emily Greene Balch, American Educator (1867-1961)
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin, American Author (1924-1987)
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
Roger Bannister, British Athlete (1929-  )
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
Bob Barker, American Actor (1923-  )
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley, American Athlete (1963-  )
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
Christiaan Barnard, South African Scientist (1922-2001)
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist (1938-  )
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
Henry Walter Bates, English Environmentalist (1825-1892)
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
Gregory Bateson, British Scientist (1904-1980)
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Thomas Beecham, English Composer (1879-1961)
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
 
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