Mother Teresa Quotes about Suffering

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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

Mother Teresa

Lonely, Sick, Suffering

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Mother Teresa

Suffering

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

Mother Teresa

Beautiful, Passion, Suffering

Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.49, New World Library

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Mother Teresa

Mean, Generosity, Suffering

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Mother Teresa

Hands, Suffering, Devil

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

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

Mother Teresa

Suffering, Disease, Realizing

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Mother Teresa

Mean, Knowing, Suffering

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Mother Teresa

Teamwork, Volunteer, Suffering

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

Mother Teresa

Laughing, Suffering, Know How

You can and you must expect suffering.

Mother Teresa

Work, Suffering

Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Waiting, Suffering

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

Mother Teresa

Joy, Suffering, Together

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Suffering, Redemption