I have this hunger in me…everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a Creator. But I don’t see it as a religion, which has cut my people in two. I don’t see Jesus Christ as being any part of a religion. Religion to me is almost like when God leaves—and people devise a set of rules to fill the space. 

Bono
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Some estimates say the scriptures mention poverty more than 2,000 times. Life in the city mentions it on street corners, under bridges, and in darkened alleys at night. Some people want, and they ask. Others need, which asks something of us.

“You will always have the poor among you,” Jesus said in John 12:8.

In Deuteronomy 15:11, God said, “There will always be poor people in the land.”

Jesus said, “Give to everyone who asks you” (Luke 6:30), echoing what God commanded in Deuteronomy 15:11: “Be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.” 
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