Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption

— Constance Friday

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

— Brandi L. Bates

Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets, and they will never get the guts to call you a thief.

— Israelmore Ayivor

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfulness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without good health.10. Love without a lover.

— Israelmore Ayivor

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

— Wendell Berry

There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

— Brandi L. Bates

There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there's a great lack in riches.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.

— Ivan Illich