Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresaalso known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life...
NationalityAlbanian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth26 August 1910
CitySkopje, Macedonia
CountryAlbania
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.
It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
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 need to love and to be someone for someone else
The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
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, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
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 for love, as there is a hunger for God.
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.