Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away....

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love them; to enlarge their horizon to a magnificent extent; to lavish upon them...

The rich don’t know when they will die, but the world’s poor don’t know when they will live

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for...

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They...

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product...

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

It’s sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

A church that is committed to Christian Community Development sees not only the soul of a person as significant but also his or her whole life on Earth. It is being completely pro-life for a...