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Poverty Quotes by Mother Teresa
- Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not…
- Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this…
- There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people…
- 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 can forgive them,…
- The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
- We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not…
- There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love…
- The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the…
- I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked,…
- The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger…
- When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who…
- One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing,…
- It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
- The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
- Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
- We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We…
- God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
- Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not…
- The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
- Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has…
- We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.…
- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for…
- It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin