Translation of "Geistige armut" in English

The idle tongues, the poverty of mind which you have shown,

But such a kind of produced poverty produces educational poverty and spiritual poverty.

At a time when decision is demanded the spiritual poverty comes particularly to light.

Mental poverty is bad and not really sexy, but that no one can say about Berlin.

Let them speak so that the contemptible poverty of their thinking can be confounded, unmasked and revealed to everyone.

If this is not understood, the material poverty of millions will be as nothing in comparison to the spiritual destitution of the powerful and wealthy of this world.

For a gently shine goes out from it, which attracts me, because something divine already beams at me, because the spiritual poverty is the sign that the soul has recognized me and the recognition also results in the turning to me.

Error suggests lack of intellectual keenness; evil, deficiency of wisdom; sin, abject spiritual poverty; but iniquity is indicative of vanishing personality control.

This negative acceptation also includes all the non-material forms of poverty that are also to be found in the rich and developed societies: marginalization, relational, moral and spiritual poverty (cf. Message for the World Day of Peace 2009, n. 2).

With this request you testify to spiritual poverty that you admit your weakness and ask me for love supply, for power and favour and for illumination through the spirit.

Which spiritual poverty testifies to this believe, and how far are men kept from truth through wrongly taught teachers.

Of course ill health, mental frailty and poverty are genuine worries and need to be part of your planning.

Spiritual poverty is therefore only the admission of his unworthiness and the desire for my favour and mercy, which also each one will experience, who in such humility lifts up his eyes to me.

They will fail to see their own miserable, spiritual poverty and wretchedness (Rev 3:14-18).

Earthly wealth certainly earns you spiritual poverty, when your wealth is not blessed by me, because you use it according to my will, in unselfish neighbourly love.

As explained in articles such as "Fighting intellectual poverty" or "On 'Intellectual Property' and Indigenous Peoples" on FSFEs web page -- as well as many others on the net -- the statement above did not match reality in the past.

But I would like to give to all men an over rich measure of favour; I would like that all would recognize their spiritual poverty; that they all would like to feel the distance from me and stretch out their hands to me out of the deepest heart, because I could then make them happy in my favour, for who is in possession of my favour, he is also soon in possession of me myself, for I never leave out him, who stands in the right child relationship to me; who requesting like a child comes to the father and calls on him for help and power.

Lucifer promises to give man material plenty but spiritual poverty – and to take his soul with him into destruction after death (Matth.

He has nothing than just this faith in my love, which does not drop him, and this his spiritual poverty makes him humble, but to the humble I give my favour, and through favour he will be happy.

But there are also many, who in the name of Jesus Christ fight against spiritual and material poverty, who help in various ways and so make the Church present.

This belief demonstrates spiritual poverty and how far people are kept from the truth by misinformed teachers....

Consider the spiritual poverty of men, and help them through handing out of spiritual treasures, because they are certainly in great misery, although earthly they lead a well-ordered life and can supply to the body what it desires.

Berlin’s economy may not be the richest city in the world, but poverty is really something else. Mental poverty is bad and not really sexy, but that no one can say about Berlin.

Neo-colonialism or cultural and intellectual poverty?

And woe to you if you leave your life on earth in spiritual poverty!

Mr President, subsidizing tobacco growers is undoubtedly a sign of intellectual poverty, but it is a far worse one to believe that our continent's problems can be solved by building thousands of kilometres of motorways and supporting very large enterprises.

It is Christmas every time you hope to those who despair in the physical and spiritual poverty.

After the fellowship and treatment of the holy doctor Panteleimon, almost all were cured of spiritual poverty, turning to the true faith.

Still, all efforts of the good and faithful people often only remain a drop of goodness and love, which can hardly be recognized in the lives of those, who live in spiritual and material poverty.

No longer should you be concerned with what you may obtain from the kingdom but rather be exercised about what you can give to those who live in dire spiritual poverty.

Therefore, like Christ the Good Shepherd, go and seek out every man, woman, child, young or elderly person who is looking for a sign of affection, solidarity and fraternal sharing in his situation of material or moral and spiritual poverty.

Has the soul the need to give to them in order to help them, then it will also be able to receive and to give away, however without love it will remain in spiritual poverty, endless long times, and able to acquire no goods at all.

Spiritual progress is predicated on intellectual recognition of spiritual poverty coupled with the self-consciousness of perfection-hunger, the desire to know God and be like him, the wholehearted purpose to do the will of the Father in heaven.

In imitation of the suffering Christ, the «Holy Man of Tours» advanced on the path of humility and spiritual poverty.

For example, in advanced wealthy societies, there is evidence of marginalization, as well as affective, moral and spiritual poverty, seen in people whose interior lives are disoriented and who experience various forms of malaise despite their economic prosperity.

But the liberation from material and spiritual poverty still remains one of the most pressing tasks in Latin America and elsewhere.

I am accumulating lots of elements of fervor, piety, for example, poverty of spirit, so as to be able to arrange my life in Rome the way I see it now, and not how I was living it before.