“Where have we any command in the Bible
laid down in stronger terms, and in a more peremptory urgent manner, than the
command of giving to the poor?” Jonathan Edwards
"Since Jesus
had to die to appease the wrath of God, we know that God is a God of justice,
and therefore we should be highly sensitive to the rights of the poor in our
communities." Tim Keller and Don Carson
"Such scenes I never before
dreamed of. Why am I such a stranger to the poor of my native town? I have
passed their doors thousands of times; I have admired the huge black piles of
buildings, with their lofty chimneys breaking the sun's rays. Why have I never
ventured within? How dwelleth the love of God in me?.... How cordial is the welcome even
of the poorest and most loathsome to the voice of Christian sympathy! What embedded
masses of human beings are huddled together, unvisited by friend or minister!
'No man careth for our souls' is written over every forehead. Awake, my soul!
Why should I give the hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there
is such a world of misery at the very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me;
confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and
folly." Robert Murray M’Cheyne
"Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do." The Apostle Paul, Galatians 2:10
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