I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
