Impoverish Quotes

“For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.”

“The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.”

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

“Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.”

“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.”

“Life in society is when everyone is there and no one is present. Life in society is when everyone obeys what no one wants. Writing is a way of escaping this impoverishment, a variation on solitude like love or gambling – a principle of insubordination, a virtue of childhood.”

“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment.”

“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.”

“Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.”