Mother Teresa Quotes about Poverty

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God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

Mother Teresa

Doe, Poverty, Share

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Mother Teresa

Responsibility, Looks, Poverty

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

Mother Teresa

America, India, Poverty

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

Mother Teresa

Needs, Poverty, Bread

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

Mother Teresa

Catholic, Poverty, Naked

"A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve".

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Mother Teresa

Giving Up, Giving, Poverty

Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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

Mother Teresa

Poverty, Egotism

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!

Mother Teresa

Angel, Animal, Poverty

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Mother Teresa

News, Able, Poverty

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Mother Teresa

Spiritual, Loneliness, Poverty

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.94, New World Library