The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by a chain. Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions...The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined. The chain spoke of poverty and mistrust and inequality and decadence.
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false springàBut Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life-it can be a superabundance of interest...
We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.
To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.
What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
I feel his language is encouraging -- he seems to be discovering a reality, the same reality that I see. Now what we need to see is whether he will use the George Bush-style conviction to eliminate poverty.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
As our system becomes less stable because we must now begin to understand that Crime, Disease, Poverty and Malnutrition are but natural components parts of our per-technological social structure.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary A liking for work.
Without this, reconstruction, economic growth, poverty reduction and counter-narcotics will continue to be hampered. It's very important that the protection of human rights becomes part of the mainstream of Afghan politics.
Honduras is a beautiful country but the poverty is devastating and the issues of poverty are difficult to solve. It gives you a different perspective on life and on the immigration issue.
IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler and other senior officials provided similar visions -- a world free of debt, poverty, hunger and disease, while full of economic partnership. I am aware of the critical debate about globalization, and many questions have to be of concern to all of us, ... But I also want to be clear if the IMF did not exist already, this would be the time to invent it.
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord.
I' th' commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all;
And women too, but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty-
SEBASTIAN.
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
If it were to become rooted in the African countryside, the consequences for a continent already devastated by hunger and poverty could be truly catastrophic.
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes has a shortage and even learning may incidentally bring a salary. A gentleman is concerned with the progress of the Way he is not anxious about poverty.
Through him wickedness shall be overcome, hatred, enmity, strife, poverty, and war abolished. This will be accomplished only by a slow but never-failing process of changing men's mental and spiritual attitude.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
This may truly be a teachable moment about the impact of poverty and race on health,
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
No one has shown any connection whatsoever between these games and tragic incidents such as Littleton, or to youth violence in general, ... But countless studies have shown a linkage of youth violence to factors such as poverty, lack of parental involvement, family violence, untreated mental illness, the proliferation of guns, substance abuse and illegal drug wars.
Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
I cannot help believing that both the poverty and the independence would wither under most systems of Proportional Representation (PR).
This has only succeeded in buying time against an increasingly dangerous threat. The difficulty in destroying this threat lies in the fact that our efforts will not be enough to overcome the fundamental causes of the phenomenon -- poverty, alienation, disaffection and ethnic hatreds deeply rooted in history,
They had a very good discussion about some of our common priorities. Both share a deep commitment to combating AIDS , preventing malaria and expanding trade to lift people out of poverty.
Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
This is a free country, as is the United States, and certain people want to protest because they have a different view of how to alleviate poverty,
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving poor... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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