We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. — 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
Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor. — 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
I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the… — 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
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them. — 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
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
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love,… — 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
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of… — 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
If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you… — 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
Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace… — 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
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
It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us. — 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 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
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