Quotes about Beggar
Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
- Mark 10:46
And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
- Luke 16:20
One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
- Luke 16:22
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Blessed be my rich Lord Jesus, who sendeth not away beggars from His house with a toom dish. He filleth the vessels of such as will come and seek. We might beg ourselves rich (if we were wise), if we could but hold out our withered hands to Christ, and learn to suit and seek, ask and knock.
- Samuel Rutherford
Atheism [i.e., Christian faith] has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal there is not a single Jew who is a beggar, and that the godless Galileans care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help that we should render them.
- John Piper
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He
- Frank Herbert
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
- Brennan Manning