...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.
Wess StaffordTags: children poverty stewardship need sharing caring
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?
Wess StaffordTags: wealth diet poverty hunger obesity calories excercise two-thirds-world
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
Ronald J. SiderTags: majority minority wealth christianity tragedy poverty irony hunger starvation affluence
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
Ronald J. SiderTags: truth wealth religion bible oppression poverty confession orthodox poor neglect creeds rituals god-s-word
It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.
Ronald J. SiderTags: education wealth food sin christian poverty hunger brotherhood health-care abomination accumulating-wealth
You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.
Mother TeresaWe fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
Ronald ReaganAm I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
Mother TeresaTags: compassion poverty frustration anger need waste dying sharing angry frustrated
Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.
Jon BloomTags: christianity temptation poverty affluence love-of-money
Greed applied is prosperity realized".
~R. Alan Woods [2006]
Tags: poverty greed prosperity r-alan-woods poverty-wealth greed-good
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