60+ Best Quotes by Mother Teresa part 2 of 5 | Hunger and Poverty

Mother Teresa - Hunger and Poverty
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu(born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. 

In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." 

Mother Teresa was an inspiration to countless millions for her lifelong devotion to the neediest and most vulnerable of the world. The selflessness and sacrifice with which she lived her own life made her an international symbol of charitable work, and the love and compassion she showed the destitute of all faiths received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.

Mother Teresa's Quotes:

  1. “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. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”

  2. “Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”

  3. “A way of satisfying our brethrens’ hunger is to share with them whatever we have – to share with them until we ourselves feel what they feel.”

  4. “The poor give us much more than we give them.
    They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food.
    And they never curse, never complain.
    We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy.
    We have so much to learn from them.”

  5. “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 helping us to love God better because of them.”

  6. “I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.”

  7. “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 nothing to eat.”

  8. “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”

  9. "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

  10. "The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

  11. “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

60+ Best Quotes by Mother Teresa:
Part 3: Life Quotes

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