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
Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — 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
