Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
It is a sin to be poor.
God has always been hard on the poor.
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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.