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If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. -- Jesus Christ
You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people. -- Jim Wallis
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. -- Henri Nouwen
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek. -- N. T. Wright
There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others. -- Joel Osteen
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. -- William Adams
When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought... I just... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?' -- Hugh Evans
Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor. -- Heber J. Grant
In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises. -- Mother Teresa
In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise. -- Mother Teresa
The poor of the earth know how much we really love Jesus. -- Adam LiVecchi
The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back. -- T. D. Jakes
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing. -- Edward de Bono
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. -- J. C. Ryle
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus. -- J. C. Ryle
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. -- Rich Mullins
Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please -- Pope Francis
We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus. -- Mother Teresa
Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them. -- Dillon Burroughs
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us. -- Francis of Assisi
It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ. -- Luigi Orione
To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus. -- Jean Vanier
If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ. -- Pope Francis
As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve. -- Felix Wantang
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay. -- John Fugelsang
Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor. -- Mother Teresa
Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow. -- Randy Alcorn
You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance. -- Anne Lamott
When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus. -- Rose of Lima
Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something? -- John Grisham
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor. -- Mother Teresa
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn. -- Philip Yancey

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