Rick Warren Quotes

We should remember the poor.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Merry Christmas to the poor of Salt Lake City.

Those who are more influential because they have greater share of goods and common services should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

We've got to take care of the poor.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.