The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You must give what will cost you something. This is giving not just what you can live without, but what you can't… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
