Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, β all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, β who is good? not that men are ignorant, β what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
Tag: poverty
Quote from J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Quote from Stephen Richards, The Cosmic Ordering Service
Quote from Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Quote from Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Quote from Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
Quote from Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
Quote from Major Thomas
Quote from Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World
I don’t like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if itβs some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don’t like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don’t find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they’re at.