Impoverished Quotes

“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”
― Audre Lorde

“I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The most impoverished people of all are those who have everything but appreciate nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“It starts with one thing. And when I find that ‘one thing’ that I can be thankful for, others immediately rush to the forefront of my mind. And in but a few moments I am so inundated by all that I have to be thankful for that any sense that my life is impoverished itself becomes impoverished.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is the fast-track to poverty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as Heaven pleases, or as he can make himself; I will take nothing from him nor even envy him, only I do not wish to contribute anything to his welfare or to his assistance in distress! Now no doubt, if such a mode of thinking were a universal law, the human race might very well subsist, and doubtless even better than in a state in which everyone talks of sympathy and good-will, or even takes care occasionally to put it into practice, but, on the other side, also cheats when he can, betrays the rights of men, or otherwise violates them. But although it is possible that a universal law of nature might exist in accordance with that maxim, it is impossible to will that such a principle should have the universal validity of a law of nature. For a will which resolved this would contradict itself, inasmuch as many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which, by such a law of nature, sprung from his own will, he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires.”
― Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

“If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Those without a choice in life are often the most innovative.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Those who have the least are usually the ones who know the most about politics.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I find it ingenious that God stepped into this world in the lowest of all places so that He can relate to poorest of all people. And while our wealth might smugly chide us into believing that we are not those people, the rancid impoverishment of our souls would tell us that we are exactly those people. And when we understand that, Christmas makes sense and we are no longer poor.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The more thankful that I become the more I realize how pathetically impoverished I was before I became thankful. And I often wonder how impoverished I still am.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The poor cannot fast, because he cannot abstain from the food he cannot afford.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The rich hear about starvation.
The poor can write a novel about it.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I view America as a very different country to what I did when I first arrived. Today I view it as a country of extreme poverty.”
― Steven Magee