Poverty Quotes by Mother Teresa

Loneliness and feeling unwanted are the greatest poverty

— Mother Teresa

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

— Mother Teresa

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

— Mother Teresa

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

— Mother Teresa

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

— Mother Teresa

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

— Mother Teresa

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

— Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

— Mother Teresa

Being Unwanted, Unloved, Uncared for, forgotten by everybody, is much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing…

— Mother Teresa

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to…

— Mother Teresa

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

— Mother Teresa

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

— Mother Teresa

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

— Mother Teresa

The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

— Mother Teresa

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

— Mother Teresa

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in…

— Mother Teresa

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty…

— Mother Teresa

Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them…

— Mother Teresa

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through…

— Mother Teresa

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.…

— Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is…

— Mother Teresa

Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for…

— Mother Teresa

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,…

— Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to…

— Mother Teresa

When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But…

— Mother Teresa

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating,…

— Mother Teresa

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all…

— Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by…

— Mother Teresa

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of…

— Mother Teresa

The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But…

— Mother Teresa

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those…

— Mother Teresa

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can…

— Mother Teresa

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

— Mother Teresa

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

— Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

— Mother Teresa

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

— Mother Teresa

“A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.”

— Mother Teresa

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

— Mother Teresa

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It…

— Mother Teresa

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless…

— Mother Teresa