Quotes from Mother Teresa
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
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 suffer so much.
- Mother Teresa
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.
- Mother Teresa
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Teresa
Holiness is doing GodÃ
- Mother Teresa
Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile. Only God knows our true needs.
- Mother Teresa
Love, to be real, must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.
- Mother Teresa