Pastoral Resources

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.