poverty on Famine

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...

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

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.

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

Poverty is no sin

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the gospel verbally but also how to demonstrate the gospel visibly in a world where so man...

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

I was teaching an English class in a high-rise apartment complex full of low-income families in Minneapolis—mostly immigrant and refugees from East Africa. The tenants’ association paid for me to come...

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

Many years ago, I watched a documentary on the remarkable ministry of Mother Teresa among the poverty-stricken people of Calcutta. At one stage there was a moving exchange between her and the commenta...

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...

For most of us, it’s a personal experience of poverty that helps us transcend our often narrow experience of the world. In this excerpt from theologian Marva J. Dawn, the former Regent College profess...

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...

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

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.

It’s hard to tell what brings happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

The Greeks used to say that people in need are ambassadors of the gods.

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...

The Athenian general and politician Themistocles eventually alienated a large number of Greek City-States that came under their rule in the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C. With his fleet of ship...

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