Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.