Destitute Quotes

• There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspiring, Law, Suffering

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• The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.

  Zig Ziglar

  World, Persons

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.84, Pelican Publishing

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• The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

  Reverend Ike

  Helpful, Poor, Ministers

  "The golden gospel of Reverend Ike" by Clayton Riley, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 1975.

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• Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Evil, Sacred

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• Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Humility, Appreciate

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.9, Moody Publishers

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• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Community, Damage, World

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• The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Worst

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• Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Common Sense, Utterance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

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• True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.

  Menno Simons

  Faith, Religious, Lying

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• The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Best Place, Knows

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• A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hands, Two, Bird

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• It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Technology, Men, Standards Set

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• Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

  Publilius Syrus

  Christian, Greed, Poverty

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• Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  People, Needs, Helping

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• In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the
  law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, Two, Feet

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIV, 1835.

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Boston, Sick

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• Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

  Paul Farmer

  Real, Rights, Sick

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• If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

  David Ricardo

  Way, Would Be, Might

  David Ricardo (1817). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Country, Government, Europe

  Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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• Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

  Timothy Keller

  Sympathy, Christian, Helping Others

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.49, Penguin

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• In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Men, World

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.332, Herman Melville

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• There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.

  Robert Southey

  Christian, Support, Principles

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”

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• For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Leader, Feelings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Faith, Brother, Genius

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• My concern is the holistic development of society. No one should go back, everyone must move forward. Enough time has been spent going backwards; now let us pledge to stride ahead, whether it's in education, health, agriculture or education of our daughters. This Government belongs to the poor. It is to support the destitute.

  Narendra Modi

  Daughter, Moving, Government

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