In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — 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
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through… — 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
Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for… — 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
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
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — 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
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.… — 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
