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• So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Heaven, Victory, Age

  Gregory A. Boyd (1997). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

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• The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Pregnancy, Holiday, Chinese

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• Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.54, Celestial Arts

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• To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Selfish, Giving

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• Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.

  E. J. Dionne

  Hard Work, Generosity, Important

  E.J. Dionne (2013). “Why Americans Hate Politics”, p.554, Simon and Schuster

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• Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Jesus, Ignorance

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• ...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

  Mark Driscoll

  Lonely, Coffee, People

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• When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.

  Joel Houston

  Pain, Children, Hands

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

  Hesiod

  Men, Doe, Poverty

  Opera et dies, 317-9 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

  Dean M. Davies

  Spiritual, Caring, Maturity

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• Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Tongue, Adults

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• You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Favors, Facts, Resentment

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• I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Careers, Complaining, Needs

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Long, Greedy, Tithe

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• Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Jesus, Broken, Special

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• God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous-not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that?

  Stormie Omartian

  Hurt, Compassion, Doe

  FaceBook post by Stormie Omartian from Feb 12, 2015

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• They the royal-hearted women are
  Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
  For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
  Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
  The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

  George Eliot

  Women, Grace, Suffering

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.226

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• An Idle youth, a needy Age.

  George Herbert

  Age, Youth, Idle

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Wicked, Charity

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.426

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• Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.

  Mark Driscoll

  Taken, Good Friend, Choices

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• Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Tired, Desert

  Sonnet 66

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Friendly, Faces

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• I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time is about as polluted and needy and beautiful as most other times. I was around in the '70s, and people were just as ambitious and envious and filled with need and desire as they are today.

  Jerry Saltz

  Beautiful, People, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.

  Caroline Knapp

  Strong, Real, Alcohol

  Caroline Knapp (1996). “Drinking: A Love Story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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