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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America. — 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
“A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.” — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. — 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
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. — 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
Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you… — 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
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
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
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can… — 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
She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — 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
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
The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Being Unwanted, Unloved, Uncared for, forgotten by everybody, is much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I… — 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
