Homeless Quotes - Page 2

• If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.

  Pema Chodron

  Giving, Needs, Attention

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• In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Jesus, Home

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Two, Economic Inequality

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Sick, Naked

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• There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

  Chris Kyle

  Country, Reason, Jobless

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• Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

  Jewel

  Kids, Home, Thinking

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• The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Past, Hypocrisy, Kicking

  "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.

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• Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Home, Dark

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Real, Home

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Ever see this? It's a homeless guy but he's got a dog... The dog's really thrilled with this idea. The dog's going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.

  Norm MacDonald

  Dog, Ideas, Guy

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• All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.

  Henny Youngman

  Home, Men

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• People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.

  Pedro Reyes

  People, Leaving, Insulting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Philosophy, Ownership, Certain

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• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, People, House

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Earthquakes, Sick, Helping

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• What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Country, Sleep

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Music, Clothes, Shelter

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• She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Poverty, Naked

  "A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve".

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• Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?

  John Fugelsang

  Prayer, Gay, Long

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• I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Want

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• Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

  Linda Lingle

  Mean

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• You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

  Jello Biafra

  Football, Golf, People

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• Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Independent, Parent

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• I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

  Mother Teresa

  Grateful, Names, People

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• Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

  e. e. cummings

  Home, Hell

  "95 poems (91)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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