It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. — 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
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
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
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
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
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us. — 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
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material… — 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
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
I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the… — 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
The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage… — 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
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa Copy Share
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
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
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
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa Copy Share
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
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share
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
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — Mother Teresa Copy Share
