Slums Quotes

• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Angel
  • Missions
  • Slums

• I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Choices
  • Born
  • Filled

• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Cat
  • Alleys
  • Temple courts

• The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Environment
  • Christ
  • Changing

• It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

  

  Tim Yeo
  • Development
  • Planning
  • Policy

• I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Hard
  • Poor
  • Soldier

• The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Gates

• I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Giving
  • Christ
  • Poor