poverty on Drought

Gracious God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit: You are the light of life, the One who speaks light into darkness and gives us hope like the rising sun as night gives way to morning. With the light of joy:...

Father, Son, Holy Spirit–our God, Mysterious, Awe-Inspiring, Wonderful, One-in-Three/Three-in-One: You surprise us not with flashing lights, loud crashing noises, and constant activity. You surprise u...

Poverty is the absence of linkages, the absence of connections with others.

Poverty is no sin

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Poverty is the result of relationships that do not work, that are not just, that are not for life, that are not harmonious or enjoyable. Poverty is the absence of shalom in all its meanings.

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

Any transformational development that is not guided, empowered and made effective by the Holy Spirit will not prove sustainable. Furthermore, expecting and praying for supernatural interventions by th...

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

We have conducted the previous exercise in dozens of middle-to-upper-class, predominantly Caucasian, North American churches. In the vast majority of cases, these audiences describe poverty differentl...

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

The Spirit wants to make you threatening to all the forces of injustice and apathy and complacency that keep our world from flourishing.

For some people the brokenness in these foundational relationships results in material poverty, that is their not having sufficient money to provide for the basic physical needs of themselves and thei...

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.

[The poor have] a feeling of powerlessness and an inability to make themselves heard.

It's the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Where have we any command in the Bible laid down in stronger terms, and in a more peremptory urgent manner, than the command of giving to the poor?”

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die

Though the West’s efforts through international aid have been well-intentioned, they have often done more harm than good. By focusing on what the poor lack, instead of what they have, the underlying m...

His poverty was so great that He was born in another man's house, and buried in another man's tomb.

Consider the following summary of an interview conducted by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two of the world’s leading researchers on poverty: In a village in Indonesia we met Ibu Emptat, the wif...

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Both the Old and New Testaments indicate that caring for the poor is one of the primary indicators of saving faith (Isa. 58:1–12; 1 John 3:17–18). Doing nothing is simply not an option for a follower ...