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When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
I had to go to Asda, it's the best supermarket if you're poor as they have a good basic range, Sainsbury's is for rich, posh people.
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
There are no free rides nor short cuts in this world. 'The Voice' and 'The Bachelorette' are very poor examples to model your life with.
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.
I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.
There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone
Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.